Rough Justice – Tell Me About It!
Hey up! This can’t be right. Prisoners residing at His Majesty’s pleasure, claiming and getting state benefits? When they are already being housed, fed, and looked after at taxpayers’ expense? Something wrong here, methinks! It has come to light (although the practice has been in place for years) that nearly…
Patience Being a Virtue? It’s A Matter of Life and Death for Some Patients!
Like most people (here and abroad), I was shocked when in that late March evening television news, I saw 42-year-old Catherine, the Princess of Wales tell the nation (and the world) about her (still undetermined) cancer diagnosis. And that she was undergoing a course of preventative chemotherapy. I noted she said she was ‘well and…
Nothing To See Here…
Okay, everybody, calm down. Just take a breath and simmer down. A Black woman has been handcuffed and arrested by the Metropolitan Police, amid distressing scenes in front of her young son. Video taken of this incident almost brought down Twitter (although it probably doesn’t take much these days to…
Should Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse go on the Sex Offenders’ Register?
Domestic abuse of any kind is a despicable and insidious evil. This includes behaviour that is controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent which also includes sexual violence. These behaviours are usually carried out by a partner, or an ex-partner. Whilst women can abuse their male partners (Sheree Spencer was recently…
Come One. Come All?
‘Segregational Appeal’. That’s a new one. Right? This phrase is attracting condemnation, it would appear, throughout all of Canada. And why? It’s all about the ‘Black Out’. Nothing to do with wartime activities, nothing to do with Covid-19, or anything like that. In the last year, two major Canadian theatres…
When is a Christmas party not a Christmas party?
Christmas office parties. What about them? They are usually the best of fun. Fed and watered by the boss. Bearded, size-12-feet Malcolm from Accounts doing a jig with the usually strait-laced Elsie from Operations and giving those in attendance the laugh of the century (won’t say anything about photocopying your…
