tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26064012093870801192024-02-22T16:12:03.728+00:00Anthony BoundsAnthony Bounds | Writer Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.comBlogger359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-91672476589665713942024-01-01T14:24:00.009+00:002024-01-02T12:10:59.478+00:00Will AI allow us early retirement? <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW141146776 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" paraeid="{6a34c180-a896-41cb-85d5-53ffe8c158b2}{78}" paraid="1167314202" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-GB"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><span class="TextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the 1960s, politicians told us that technology would herald a leisure economy. This </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">didn't</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> happen. Today, </span></span><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">those in power are preaching the same message about AI and predict </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that robots will soon do our jobs so we </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don't</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have to.</span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><span style="color: #242424; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="263" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n_k8syjySn0" width="512" youtube-src-id="n_k8syjySn0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If we take a step back, history teaches us a different lesson. S</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ince the invention of the microchip, most people have had to work harder and longer to put a roof over their heads. This </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">wasn’t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> how the technological age was sold to us was it? It would appear that those putting about such ideas, either lied to working people about the benefits of technology, or just got it wrong.</span></div></span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW141146776 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" paraeid="{6a34c180-a896-41cb-85d5-53ffe8c158b2}{78}" paraid="1167314202" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We must remember too, that the only thing that </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">working men</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and women </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlAdvancedProofingIssueV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">have to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> bargain with is their labour, so if robots can be programmed to work in their factories and farm their land, then the rest of us will be increasingly less </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">useful to prospective employers, who will no longer need us to turn a profit.</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW141146776 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" paraeid="{6a34c180-a896-41cb-85d5-53ffe8c158b2}{78}" paraid="1167314202" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="TextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141146776 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Before pushing the AI button, however, those that own the country’s wealth have a problem. because at the moment, they are hopelessly unsure how far the technology should be allowed to go. 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1225" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYa30FH4p_2K4AmvAPsM5pVvCIIjZqCATvUNm6N6Me_gjw7IDOv1sySNVtvk8SId8F9PoCOQfU3fyPZhTXHeVwW-cxyEkR0gQV8Pur5UGeurbHG2xboIK-b8rgDc10iuHAnn0_i6LZXxk/s640/NHS+Solidarity.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Image by kind permission of: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NHSSolidarity/">NHS Solidarity</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Following the 1948 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/tyne-and-wear-case-study/about-the-group/public-administration/the-1848-public-health-act/">Public Health Act</a> the Secretary of State for Health had a legal obligation to provide universal health care. In 2012, by passing the </b><b><b><b><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/contents/enacted">Health and Social Care Act</a>, the Coalition Government </b></b>removed the duty to provide universal heath care and enshrined </b><b>in law </b><b>instead the right of the Secretary of State for Health to develope a marketised, insurance based healthcare system. More than 10 years later and Drs and Nurses on the frontline tell us that the NHS is being privatised, contract-by-contract, right under their noses.</b><p></p><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cz5dl9fhj7o/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cz5dl9fhj7o?feature=player_embedded" width="600"></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.allysonpollock.com/?page_id=9">Professor Allyson Pollock</a> is Director of the <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ihs/">Institute of Health and Society</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So where's the saving made when contracting out chunks of the NHS? You'd think that for an organisation with such a fantastically well motivated staff, outsourcing would distraction from patient care and just add another tier of expensive management. On top of the extra cost of outsourcing healthcare, there's the reality that part of the money spent on buying in NHS services goes straight into the pockets of the private business owners that, quite naturally, want a slice of the action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">While NHS managers, spend their days trying to decide between competing healthcare suppliers, sick patients are stuck in ambulances, or being treated in privately owned hospital car parks. This must be agonisingly difficult to endure day in day out, but this is what a marketised healthcare system looks like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Privatisation of the NHS is unwanted, unnecessary and, worst of all, is failing the public miserably - but it doesn’t have to be like this.<br /><br />If in 1948, after being bankrupted by two World Wars, the UK could afford to provide Universal Health Care, why is it today, as the sixth largest economy in the World after France, that we are told that the country can't afford to pay for a publicly run Health Service, or <a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2018/07/nurses-flee-nhs-for-lidl-wages_3.html">pay doctors and nurses properly?</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">In 2023, while </span>Doctors and Nurses are having to fight for better working conditions and a fair wage, Ministers continue to dismantle the NHS by systematically outsourcing healthcare contract-by-contract to private companies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The argument that the UK can't afford the NHS is a myth put about by free market ideologues as they convince unwitting NHS managers that the only way to save the NHS is through the <i>miracle</i> of private enterprise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>NHS management, however, are torn between their belief in the provision of Universal Healthcare enshrined in the original 1948 Act and the certain knowledge their employment is dependent on the inexorable shift towards a marketised healthcare system that has removed by law the duty of the Secretary of State for Health to provide Universal Healthcare for all. Without structural and political change, sadly, the future of the NHS looks increasingly bleak.</div><br /><a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/general-election-2015-is-nhs-safe-in.html">What Drs say about NHS funding</a> since 2017<br /><a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Politics">More on Politics</a><br /><b><span style="color: #444444;">You may also like:</span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2018/07/nurses-flee-nhs-for-lidl-wages_3.html">Nurses flee NHS for Lidl wages </a><br /><div><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care">The Department for Health and Social Care Perspective </a><br /><b></b></div>Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-87682041156247470022023-04-18T15:23:00.000+01:002023-04-18T22:17:59.797+01:00Why people will always need to protest <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/story">At the Tolpuddle Martyrs museum 2017 </a></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Throughout his<span style="font-family: inherit;">tory </span>people have always had to fight for their rights, rights denied them by the ruling elite, whether those in power be emperors, Russian Tsars, French<span style="font-family: inherit;">, or </span>British monarchs, fascist dictators, or unelected <span style="font-family: inherit;">EU <span style="font-family: inherit;">C</span>ommissioners. </span> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over time, and considerable </span>struggle, <span style="font-family: inherit;">people have achieved a great deal to overcome oppression. For example, the right not to be treated as property,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>as slaves were until the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/">abolition</a> of slavery in 1833. We also take it for granted today, but it really wasn't that long ago, that only the very wealthiest property owners were allowed to vote in <span style="font-family: inherit;">general </span>elections. Men with urban property got the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/elections-faq-page/#jump-link-2">vote</a> in </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">1867<span style="font-family: inherit;">,</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">w</span>hile m</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">en without property over 21, had to wait until after the end of First World War in 1918 to be eligible to vote<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">W</span></span>omen<span style="font-family: inherit;"> without property,</span> thanks to the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/thevote/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">S</span>uffraget <span style="font-family: inherit;">M</span>ovement</a>, finally <span style="font-family: inherit;">g<span style="font-family: inherit;">ot </span></span>the vote<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>ten years later than men in 1928. Finally, under a Labour Government, Harold Wilson in 1969 <span style="font-family: inherit;">made it possibl<span style="font-family: inherit;">e for </span></span>18 year olds to <span style="font-family: inherit;">decide who represents them in Parliament</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and so </span>the fight for democracy goes on. Today, 16 year olds, while old enough to work, get married and have children<span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>are unable to vote. It must be right that young people should have the chance to choose who makes the laws that they are expected to obey? Democracy, even now <span style="font-family: inherit;">it seems, </span>is work-in-progress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><blockquote><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a consequence of past class struggles, men and women are now able to vote in general elections and choose, if they wish, to elect representatives that will demand a descent living wage, a proper education, <span style="font-family: inherit;">universal </span>health care and </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">to be cared for when they get old. Progressive change would not have happened were it not for the 19th century liberal approach to politics, 20th century Socialism, or <span style="font-family: inherit;">people </span>making themselves heard by protest.</span></i></b></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the 21st century, it seems to me an enduring truth that there are two <span style="font-family: inherit;">popular </span>views of how people are governed: The Conservative way and the Labour way. The distinction is simple, the Conservative Party exists to look after and maintain the the interests of the owners capital, while the Labour Party's purpose is to protect the workers (the people that toil to creat<span style="font-family: inherit;">e</span> the countr<span style="font-family: inherit;">y's </span>wealth). Both systems claim to oppose the ill treatment and exploitation of human beings that existed in the past, and the opportunity to protest, helps ensure that people will never again be slaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is still much work to do and damaging inequality still remains in the UK, so until the norm across society is fairness, justice and equality we should take care not to judge too harshly those that stick their neck out to try to make their lives better.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/africa_caribbean/africa_trade.htm">History of Slavery</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/elections-faq-page/#jump-link-2">History of Voting</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/thevote/">Equal Franchise Act 1928 </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.labour.org.uk/index.php/manifesto2017">Labour's Manifesto 2017</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/davos-richest-100-britain-saw-wealth-increase-%C2%A3555bn-2010">UK Equality Trust</a><br />
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<a href="http://inequality.org/about/">World Wealth Inequality</a><br />
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<a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Socialism">More on Socialism</a><br />
<br />Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-46069823134723988762020-07-09T12:00:00.020+01:002021-08-01T10:47:25.232+01:00When will there be a cure for Covid-19? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="370" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8iCgcYA1YTg" width="570" youtube-src-id="8iCgcYA1YTg"></iframe></div><p>THERE IS NO CURE for the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3416289/">common cold</a> and because that was caused by a previous version of <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/" target="_blank">Coronavirus,</a> we have to
consider the probability that a completely protective vaccine anytime soon is
unlikely. <br />
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Expert opinion varies from 18 months to 10 years
(from Lab to Doctor's surgery) for a fully working vaccine, however, until it's thoroughly tested, the most effective way to dodge the disease is to starve the virus by keeping away from other people as much as we can. So, in the short-run, if we keep as far away from potential carriers, wear face barriers (screens and masks), wash our hands and the surfaces where the virus lingers, we should be able to keep the virus within manageble limits.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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According to W.H Allen, the author of: <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/112/1120525/the-pandemic-century/9780753558287.html">The Pandemic Century</a>, and speaking in June 2020, scientists' working in Asia have
identified 500 Coronaviruses (mainly in bats) and 50 of those have the
potential to cause as much disruption and death as Covid-19. In the longer term, therefore, it's essential that <a href="https://www.one.org/international/blog/tsion-firew-pass-the-mic-covid19/" target="_blank">scientists' working in epidemiology</a> are properly funded and worldwide investment in health systems are sufficient to identify, then isolated animal-based Coronaviruses before
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html">Vaccine Tracker</a><br />
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<![endif]--></p>Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-59270854304039908502020-03-20T12:15:00.003+00:002021-10-13T09:22:18.457+01:00Is Coronavirus a wake-up call for humans not to eat exotic animals?The practice in Asia of keeping live animals at market because
some people like to buy "warm meat" is the probable cause of the current
pandemic. The market trader of wild animals slaughter and butcher the
creatures there and then, which runs a risk of contamination. These zoonotic viruses then become human viruses, just as measles started in animals. In a g<span class="text_exposed_show">lobal
world we have to change how we farm and eat meat. Coronavirus is a
wake-up call and thankfully, with a the death-rate currently running at rate at 2%, does not appear as
great a health risk to humans as some others, e.g. Ebola, which has 50%
death rate or Nipah virus that kills 70% of those exposed to it.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"></span>Hopefully, lessons will be learnt from the Corona experience and humans will now think twice before eating wild animals. <br />
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Referencing: Professor Andrew Cunningham (expert in zootonic diseases)
after listening to him on the BBC Monday 16th March 2020.</div>
Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-63521132342481828552019-10-14T18:47:00.007+01:002021-04-12T11:01:25.418+01:00How to avoid a second EU referendum<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00HpiKQQXoMHKGwDnmUa5O3oMKAUYgCYORAhUFvAo2HuP30Z4OzJ3Xv1I2fCxBkH4yc8H7-Rlt_TUN46dSumitDAy3IqbFo_-TbZ3WWI_tjZ6W8ARWZC7h0f3kkHvd_rXLfys8CX9lqg/s1600/13996554811rwn4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0TSXyVJ2TIUa5w_9JTcvyJZpc0zkXF0oU9o8hasBhq7P3dXf0kkir6RtNE1arUnvASPNsMF2R_bEB8IKAJcCpziIT_WT155ujUama2I2FAYh-5wwlZAp9_o6EM4_2JIgonA6hGze5TE/s575/dscf4542edit.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0TSXyVJ2TIUa5w_9JTcvyJZpc0zkXF0oU9o8hasBhq7P3dXf0kkir6RtNE1arUnvASPNsMF2R_bEB8IKAJcCpziIT_WT155ujUama2I2FAYh-5wwlZAp9_o6EM4_2JIgonA6hGze5TE/s320/dscf4542edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00HpiKQQXoMHKGwDnmUa5O3oMKAUYgCYORAhUFvAo2HuP30Z4OzJ3Xv1I2fCxBkH4yc8H7-Rlt_TUN46dSumitDAy3IqbFo_-TbZ3WWI_tjZ6W8ARWZC7h0f3kkHvd_rXLfys8CX9lqg/s1600/13996554811rwn4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>1. Take Remain off the table<br />
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2. Take No Deal off the table<br />
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3. Lock MPs in Parliament for 7 days with packed lunches until they do their job and decide what to do<br />
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4. If they can't agree then replace MPs with a general election<br />
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5. In the event of another Hung Parliament, Repeat stages 1 - 4 until a deal is agreed<br />
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6. Put the deal to EU<br />
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7. If the EU agree to the deal<br />
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BREXIT DONE<br />
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8. If EU are unable to agree - walk away without a deal and do deals after Brexit<br />
<br />Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-47342007777681077242019-06-13T11:38:00.018+01:002023-11-14T10:49:20.242+00:00Why the Conservative Party needs Rory Stewart <p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Since David Cameron bailed after the EU referendum the Conservative Party has been clinging o<span style="font-family: inherit;">nto Theresa May for fear <span style="font-family: inherit;">of something worse. That something worse, however, is not so much the larger than <span style="font-family: inherit;">life character Boris Johnson, but the <span style="font-family: inherit;">knowledge <span style="font-family: inherit;">of what happens to the Conservative Party once <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Boris is</span> an<span style="font-family: inherit;">ointed Britain's Prime Minister. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b>
<br />
<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">From a Conservative perspective<span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>that
something worse, is a self-inflicted Labour Government<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and </span>p<span style="font-family: inherit;">ossibly</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>no Brexit<span style="font-family: inherit;"> at all<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span> </b> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If </span></span>Boris<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>Johnson is
telling the truth, that he will leave the EU “Come what may”, then <span style="font-family: inherit;">a <b>No Deal Brexit</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">is a practical reality<span style="font-family: inherit;">. What could follow is </span></span></span>the pro-Europeans in the
Conservative Party, backed by the Confederation of Business and Industry and
the opposition parties, will threaten a general election<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to try stop <span style="font-family: inherit;">an<span style="font-family: inherit;"> all-out Brexit</span></span>. </span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> The other
option is to pick out another Remainer <span style="font-family: inherit;">to replace </span>Theresa May<span style="font-family: inherit;">, but </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">c</span>hoosing </span>someone like Jeremy Hun<span style="font-family: inherit;">t, </span>is also a risk for the Conservative Party, because deep down, the <span style="font-family: inherit;">leave voters upon which they rely, may leave the <span style="font-family: inherit;">Conservatives for </span>a more permanent home in <span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigel Far<span style="font-family: inherit;">age's </span></span>Brexit Party. </span></span></span></span><br />
</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Far fr</b></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>om being the failure her colleagues have portrayed her to be<span style="font-family: inherit;">, Theresa May<span style="font-family: inherit;">, in terms of delaying <span style="font-family: inherit;">the UK's exit from the EU</span></span></span>, </b></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>for <span style="font-family: inherit;">R</span>emainers a least, </b></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">wa</span>s a tremendous success<span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="font-family: inherit;">however, </span>the majority in the country expect the Conservatives to deliver Brexit<span style="font-family: inherit;">, so t<span style="font-family: inherit;">heir leader has to make that happen<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a<span style="font-family: inherit;">nd pull us out<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></b></i> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> So what is
the Conservative Party to do? If they
pick Boris Johnson and he sticks to his No Deal guns, then there’ll be an
election by Christmas. On the other
hand, if they pick Theresa May’s right-hand man in the For<span style="font-family: inherit;">iegn</span> Office<span style="font-family: inherit;">, Je<span style="font-family: inherit;">remy Hunt<span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span></span></span>the
party risks prolonging the Brexit impasse and, at the same time, exacerbate
the threat posed to them by the clarity and strong leadership offered by Brexit
Party.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Having not
voted Conservative since John Major in the 90s I am perhaps a surprising advocate <span style="font-family: inherit;">for </span>Rory Stewart, but, as I see it, it is only he that can square the hellishly difficult dilemma
of how to deliver Brexit without collapsing the UK economy, diminishing <span style="font-family: inherit;">the country's </span>international
status, or dismantling the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.</span></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RoryStewartPenrith/">Rory Stewart</a>
is the only Conservative candidate <span style="font-family: inherit;">with a </span>chance of achieving a satisfactory
Brexit outcome for the British people. Quite
apart from believing that this person actually cares about the big issues, climate
change<span style="font-family: inherit;">,</span> fairness<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a<span style="font-family: inherit;">nd wants to over<span style="font-family: inherit;">haul</span> social care, </span></span>his strategy on Brexit, in the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>particular
parliamentary circumstances the country finds itself, is the only candidate
that is able deliver a sensible Brexit.</span></span></span></i></b></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> So how will <span style="font-family: inherit;">Rory </span>do it? Well<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>first, as P<span style="font-family: inherit;">rime Minister</span>, Rory Stewart will immediately take No Deal off and
Remain off the table. There will be
those that will baulk at this idea, imagining that o<span style="font-family: inherit;">ur <span style="font-family: inherit;">P.M. </span>should </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">negotiate an <span style="font-family: inherit;">International Treaty<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">like a <span style="font-family: inherit;">comp<span style="font-family: inherit;">any <span style="font-family: inherit;">S</span>ales <span style="font-family: inherit;">D</span>irector, however, a</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">s the last three years have established, trying to do deal <span style="font-family: inherit;">w<span style="font-family: inherit;">ith 27 other countries is <span style="font-family: inherit;">not easy</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and to deny this practical reality is to accept </span>further <a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2016/06/brexit-could-take-10-years-and-might.html">excruciating and damaging delay</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Because of the awful <span style="font-family: inherit;">inflatio<span style="font-family: inherit;">nary economic consequences </span></span>of a No Deal Brexit the EU know<span style="font-family: inherit;">, as <span style="font-family: inherit;">do <span style="font-family: inherit;">a majority of the UK's MPs, that a NO Deal </span></span></span>is so remo<span style="font-family: inherit;">te a possibility that it ceases to be the </span>bargaining chip<span style="font-family: inherit;">, that all<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>other the other conservative candidates </span>say it i<span style="font-family: inherit;">s. <span style="font-family: inherit;">In my view, No Deal is n<span style="font-family: inherit;">ot a credible threat and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span>will not work <span style="font-family: inherit;">within</span> current international diploma<span style="font-family: inherit;">tic ci<span style="font-family: inherit;">rcles. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Threatening </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Germany and F<span style="font-family: inherit;">rance with No Deal </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>may be an
effective tactic for </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>US with its military and economic might, as it may have been </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">for Britain</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>
in the 19</b></span><sup style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>century, but it is </b></span><span><b>naïve</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> to imagine that the UK can
negotiate so aggressively with 27 EU countries, w</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">ith <span style="font-family: inherit;">the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>level of power it is able to wield today. </span></span></span></span></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> For me personally, the
Conservative leadership contest is a win-win situation. If Boris Johnson wins we’ll have a general election
and <span style="font-family: inherit;">L</span>abour Government a few years sooner, but if Conservatives have the
wisdom to vote for a candidate with the brains, negotiating skill and the
humility to do a deal with the EU and without condemning millions of <span style="font-family: inherit;">our p</span>oorest UK
citizens <span style="font-family: inherit;">to poverty <span style="font-family: inherit;">by <span style="font-family: inherit;">ushering in a </span></span></span>No Deal Brexit, then in <a href="http://www.rorystewart.co.uk/">Rory Stewart</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Conservatives should </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">be allowed </span>one more chance to safely deliver a grown-up Brexit deal, and at the same time, do the
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<li><a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2017/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-gb-x-none.html">Will the UK ever leave the EU? </a></li>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">They all <i>sat up</i>, as they called it, an action
no doubt fixed in Rachel’s childhood, when <i>sitting up, </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">rather than </span>sitting down, was
compulsory. Joe didn’t want to appear rude, so was sat bolt upright with his
chest pushed out as far as he possibly could.</span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
Joe waited, his eyes shifted along the oak runway silently counting the
receptacles that cluttered the table. The contents of the red cast-iron
saucepan were then transferred to similar vessels perched at regular intervals on
ornamental metal trivets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In time, these
spuds and sundry veg’ would find themselves on plates ready to eat.</span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Derek
had been <i>sitting up</i> for Rachel for thirty years and Natasha, their youngest
daughter, for over twenty, but they didn’t seem to mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Peterson family accepted having to sit up
straight, and apart from slightly pronounced sternums, were (more or less) free
of disability. </span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
wine hadn’t made it to the table yet and was waiting dutifully by the fire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was undoubtedly a good one, smooth as wine
buffs say - very smooth. Joe momentarily wondered whether it might be a
fruity one, or perhaps possessed a hint of something or other, but he really
hadn’t the nose for wine.</span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sat
at the top of the table, Derek broke the silence, ‘Fifty pence a bottle in
France.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then hoisted the bottle to
eye level, pointedly examined the label, and in a soft Anglo-French accent, announced
the grapes origin and hinted about the quality, ‘Produce of St. Emilion 1982,’ he
then added with the softest of sniffs, ‘You can’t beat a good Bordeaux can you
Rachel?’ Lowering the bottle to within a half-inch of his not inconsiderable
nostrils, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">connoisseur </i>emitted a
bolder sniff, and after a short pause, concluded, ‘Superb.’ </span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Do
you like Claret Joe?’ Rachel asked politely while Derek tilted the bottle and
gave the label another once-over. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joe, being
Joe, knew Claret was wine, but what category it fell into was a mystery. What
he did know, was that if he drank anymore of the stuff, he’d have serious
digestive problems later. </span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natasha
was placed sitting up straight next to her father. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Derek and Rachel were desperate for one of
each and weren’t best pleased when Natasha came along. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was such a nuisance having to have the
extra child, and right up until the birth, Derek was convinced Rachel would
give him a son. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was after Natasha was born that Derek developed his theory: <i>The Origins of
Male Offspring</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.</span>
Derek</i>, the sex of the child was nothing to do with chromosomes or DNA, but
personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the parents were forceful
enough, the theory went, a male child would be produced. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To Derek, this appeared the truth, and his
theory prevailed, but even after their second daughter came along, he was unable
to accept the science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Derek had
certainly tried his hardest, but he wasn’t convinced Rachel had put enough into
it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His persistence paid off in the end
however, and a couple of years later, an oh-so-determined Rachel, produced
Tarquin, and at long last, the Petersons were a proper English family.</span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">..</span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 125%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Sitting up</i> is C</span>hapter 1 of The Expensive Cravat a 65,0<span style="font-family: inherit;">00</span> word <span style="font-family: inherit;">comic novel<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>that I am editing for publication<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">in <span style="font-family: inherit;">2023. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Any resemblance between my fictional character<span style="font-family: inherit;">s or<span style="font-family: inherit;"> places mentioned is coincidental</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span> </span><a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/four-books-did-hitler-eat-strawberry.html">More on </a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/four-books-did-hitler-eat-strawberry.html">The Expensive Cravat</a> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span> </div>
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Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-37816908892354755852019-01-31T09:28:00.002+00:002019-03-26T11:44:58.515+00:00Is philanthropy just a guilt-trip triggered by avoiding taxes? <b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Is it fair to argue that <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">p</span></span>hilanthropy <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">a <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">psychiatric </span>solution </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">adopted </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">to alleviate the guilt <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">within </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">those that</span></span> live off other people's labour<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And, <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is it true that people who give money away volunraily<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> use their vitue to </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">justisfy empl<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">oy<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ing people cleverer than themselves<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> to help </span></span></span>th<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">e<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">m avoid<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> their share of <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">tax<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></b><br />
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<span data-offset-key="csruk-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the UK, as in the US, it is true that there is currently high levels of employment. However, both Republicans and the Conservative governments, frequently cite this as a universal success. What the Republican and the Conservative governments don't tell us, is that the drop in unemployment is on the back of in-work poverty, the need for in-work benefits, the explosion in the need for food backs, insecurity at work, a lack of union representation and a rise in zero-hours contracts. </span></span><br />
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<b>Business leaders must have been squirming on the golf course yesteday as the
<a href="https://labour.org.uk/issue/negotiating-brexit/">Labour</a> leader <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MA9KiR46h4">Jeremy Corbyn</a> gave Theresa May's government a lesson in what's best for the UK economy.</b><br />
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So why isn't the Conservative Party trying harder to help business? After all, it's they that claim to care about business and finance and by failing to embrace a nationwide <a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/leaving-eu-customs-union-what-involved">Customs Union</a>, rule out a <a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/11/24/what-to-expect-from-a-no-deal-brexit">No Deal Brexit</a>, or at the very least, consider a second referendum on the final deal. The Conservatives are, as it were, biting the hand that feeds them. <br />
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The answer, however, is not as simple as it might seem. The problem the government faces, is that, because it has no overall majority in Parliament, its ability to compromise on any EU deal is difficult, not only by the need to maintain the support of the <a href="http://www.mydup.com/">Democratic Unionist Party</a> (DUP), but also a much larger group of hard-line Conservative Brexiteers who favour a clean break from the EU, or No Deal.<br />
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The DUP's position is confusing, but, in a nutshell, the DUP is adamant that they will not accept a deal that treats Northern Ireland differently to other UK countries. It follows that, without a UK-wide Customs Union, or a No Deal Brexit, the DUP, along with 100s of others in Parliament, find it impossible to vote for May's deal, a deal which centres on the so called<a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/northern-ireland-backstop"><i> Irish Backstop</i></a><b>.</b> For those who find the notion of a <i>Backstop</i> difficult, all it really is is a political mechanism designed to make special arrangements
through a natonwide Customs Union that keep the EU border between Northern Ireland open to trade
and people. If the <i>Backstop</i> were permanant the DUP would, because it's nationwide, accept this, however, to Conservative Brexiteers, an Ir<i>ish Backstop</i> that leaves the EU in control of when the border between the EU and the UK can be lifted, is unacceptable and feels to them like being half-in Europe. <br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Given the history of <a href="http://education.niassembly.gov.uk/post_16/snapshots_of_devolution/gfa">Northern Ireland</a> and an appreciation of the DUP's stated position</span> t<span class="text_exposed_show">o preserve the Union and remain inextricably linked to the UK</span>, the DUP's attitude to the <i>Irish Backstop</i> shouldn't have been a massi<span class="text_exposed_show">ve
surprise to the May Government. Preserving the integrity of the United Kingdom is a purpose the DUP share with the Conservative Party, which, alongside supporting the owners of property, wealth and the monarchy, have developed to protect the Union of countries which now make up the UK. This, of course, is why the DUP has the word <a href="https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/irishhistorylive/IrishHistoryResources/Articlesandlecturesbyourteachingstaff/ThedevelopmentofUnionismbefore1912/"><i>Unionist</i></a> in it's
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Unionist Party and </span><span class="text_exposed_show">why the DUP insists on being welded to the UK </span><br />
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It follows that remaining half-in the EU via a Customs Union, whether that be a Custom's Union negotiated separately with the EU, or one part of a permanent <i>Irish Backstop</i>, is, by far, the best comprise <u>for UK business</u>. Some will say that, if we have access to the Single Market through a Custom's Union, then we may as well, in economic terms at least, have voted Remain? I understand that, and have <a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2017/10/normal-0-false-false-false-en-gb-x-none.html">written about it on this blog</a>, but the point I'm trying to make here is that, if the Conservative Party remains the champion of business and truly believes in the integrity of the United Kingdom, then they must now work with Labour and the <a href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/mps-reject-nodeal-brexit-37763182.html">majority in Parliament</a>, to jettison a No Deal and put in place Customs Union so that the UK can, at last, wriggle free of this appalling political impasse.<br />
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<a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2016/06/brexit-could-take-10-years-and-might.html">Brexit could take 10 years and might not happen at all</a>. (Written the day after the 2016 IN-OUT EU referendum </div>
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<b>On February 6<sup>th</sup> 2019 twelve-hundred student job hunters are expected to arrive at the </b><a data-mce-href="http://www.guu.co.uk/" href="http://www.guu.co.uk/"><b>Glasgow University Union</b></a><b>
where students and graduates will be able to meet with around fifty of
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and software developers Turnkey, to the global accountancy and
professional services practice KPMG will be there, and all of them will
be looking to recruit talented new graduates into both the private and
public sectors. Some of Scotland’s Top Universities will be attending: <a data-mce-href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/" href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/">University of Glasgow</a>,
University of Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt University along with the
highly regarded University of Bath. The Civil Service Fast Stream will
also be looking for the brightest and best, as will, Save the Children,
professional services multinational and Times top-ranked graduate
employer, PwC and of course, the events main
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<li>Get <b>career advice</b> from Glasgow University’s team of Career Managers.</li>
<li>Update your professional <b>profile picture.</b></li>
<li>Meet stylists from high street fashion retailers Slaters and Marks & Spenser for some <b>style advice that could give you the edge at interview.</b></li>
<li>This year there’s also a chance to have a <b>caricature</b> of yourself done that you can use as a fun profile picture and there’s also the chance to win <b>prizes</b>, tons of freebies and more...</li>
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There’s such a lot happening at Glasgow University Union at the <a data-mce-href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/careers/employers/fair/careersinternshipmarketplace2019/" href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/careers/employers/fair/careersinternshipmarketplace2019/">Careers and Internship Market Place</a> this year so make sure you get there early to make the most of what promises to be an incredible day.<br />
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event will take place on Wednesday 6th February, across the whole of
the historic Glasgow University Union. Doors open at 11am until 3pm and
there's no need to register until you arrive on the door.<br />
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<a data-mce-href="index.php/university-news-151/167-university-of-glasgow/409-new-glasgow-pill-may-save-thousands-of-africans" href="http://www.studentguardian.co.uk/index.php/university-news-151/167-university-of-glasgow/409-new-glasgow-pill-may-save-thousands-of-africans">Read more articles mentioning the University of Glasgow</a><br />
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Too many MPs won't accept a half-in/half-out EU deal, so logically it's a General Election or honour the referendum and come out http://<a href="https://t.co/vHcgFu83U4">https://t.co/vHcgFu83U4</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/brexit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#brexit</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoConfidence?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoConfidence</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bbclaurak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bbclaurak</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrunoBrussels?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BrunoBrussels</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeremycorbyn</a></div>
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Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-9559042800519906792018-12-04T09:59:00.001+00:002021-04-12T11:41:32.202+01:00Looking for that pefect gift for the boss? <br />
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<b>It was twenty years ago now that my old boss shouted:</b></div>
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Let's face it, we all know one<b> </b>and wouldn't it be great if you could tell 'em how you really felt? The problem is though, you can't just come out and say it, not really, it's just not nice. Then again, whoever they are, they do need to know, so here's a few ways you can insult those you love to hate...</div>
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<li><b>The unsuspecting other half.</b> Chances are who ever gets the <i>I'm a Twat Mug </i>won't
get it out the box staright away, but the first time they do they'll
be the second to know. If you can it's best to try to keep a straight
face, this way you can repeatedly enjoy your victim's confidence drain
away as they remember the last half dozen times they had a cuppa. </li>
<li><b>Just watch his face after he's loaded the dishwasher. </b>If whoever gets
the mug usually does the washing up make sure they load the dishwasher
when the mugs first used. For maximum impact ask him to wash it up
before all the dinner guests have left. </li>
<li><b>Important meetings. </b>Just before the interview panel assemble switch their usual mugs for three of ours.</li>
<li><b>Cup of tea for the boss. </b>Not all bosses<b> </b>are<b> </b>pompous,
self-satisfied arses, so take care not to emotionally destroy a good
one, but, according to a recent survey, 99% of employers
will recognise themselves when they get the mugs message.</li>
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<span style="color: red;">Warning:</span> Not to be given as presents to the blind...</div>
<a href="https://handyideas.blogspot.com/search?q=I%27m+a+Twat+Mug"><br /></a>
<a href="https://handyideas.blogspot.com/search?q=I%27m+a+Twat+Mug" target="_blank">Read the published article</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.lovekates.co.uk/kgxp50461-emotional-rescue-absolutely-crap-golfer-mug-in-gift-box.html">Another very amusing mug </a></div>
Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-55142638066004119552018-10-03T13:08:00.001+01:002018-10-03T13:10:11.443+01:00What is leadership? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-77299945670186995192018-07-03T14:37:00.000+01:002020-04-15T23:32:24.225+01:00Nurses flee NHS for Lidl wages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Isn't it ironic that not only are <a href="https://nursingnotes.co.uk/nurse-quits-nhs-work-lidl-pay-hours/">Nurses leaving the </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">NHS</a> to get better pay at Lidl, if they get sick while working for the <a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.com/search?q=Brexit">EU</a> supermarket, they won't have to wait months in NHS queues either. </b><br />
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I was told this after talking to a chap working the <a href="https://careers.lidl.co.uk/en/graduate-placement-new-3569.htm">Lidl</a>
checkout who had to ask me why I was buying three packs of pain
killers. I explained that I'd had tooth ache on and off for eighteen
months and was on a three year waiting list for an NHS dentist. The
checkout guy had a similar story and sympathised, but said his dental problem
was sorted out quickly as Lidl provided private health cover for their
employees. <br />
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So why is it that German companies care so much about their staff? Paying relatively high wages and providing excellent terms and conditions for their staff could be pure altruism, but, more likely, they are generous because they have the wisdom to realise that a healthy and fairly paid workforce is happier, more loyal, works harder and, above all, staff are less likely to have to have long perperiods off sick if they are looked after properly.<br />
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It's interesting what you learn about a business when you talk to people at the checkout, so when you next go shopping, why not ask them what they think of the company they work for and then compare how employers differ in their approach to the welfare of their employees...<br />
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You might like:<a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2018/01/is-nhs-being-privatised.html"> Is the NHS being privatised by the back door? </a><br />
<br />Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-87167189099674632112018-05-15T13:57:00.001+01:002019-05-09T11:23:09.122+01:00Donald Trump - fluke, or grand design? <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">s <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">now the </span>time to stop fooling ourselves<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> that </span></span></span><a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Donald+Trump">Donald Trump</a> is<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> a political </span>aberration that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">became </span>the United States P</span>res<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">ident </span></span>by some kind of fluke, and acce<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">pt that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">he's the </span>World's most powerful leader by American design</span>? </span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">After all,
the <a href="https://www.gop.com/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Republican
Party</span></a> picked him out from a bunch of other nominees. The
American people, in their millions, voted for him and so, despite near
universal world-wide derision, Donald Trump remains firmly in power. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Donald Trump
is not, in my view, in power because of unique, or special attributes, but<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>because the majority of the American elite, <span style="font-family: inherit;">followed by </span>the American people,
believe<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>he c<span style="font-family: inherit;">an</span> deliver what they want<span style="font-family: inherit;">. <span style="font-family: inherit;">S</span></span>ince his election, Donald Trump <span style="font-family: inherit;">has given the wealthiest Americans <span style="font-family: inherit;">what they want<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ed, mainly in t<span style="font-family: inherit;">he</span> form of huge reductions in<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the<span style="font-family: inherit;">i</span>r </span>corporate and personal taxes<span style="font-family: inherit;">, but<span style="font-family: inherit;">, in terms of wor<span style="font-family: inherit;">kers rights and denial of <span style="font-family: inherit;">universal healthcare, environmental damage<span style="font-family: inherit;">, and so on, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the President has <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">been less sucessful.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless, Donald Trump<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn<span style="font-family: inherit;">'t app<span style="font-family: inherit;">ear</span></span></span>, as his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFPZbRZXDU">critics</a> fear, to be deliberately
trying to start World War III<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I</span>t</span> seems to me<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">more likely <span style="font-family: inherit;">that he's </span>been <span style="font-family: inherit;">put in<span style="font-family: inherit;"> place </span></span></span>to manage America's
withdrawal from the international stag<span style="font-family: inherit;">e<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span>and<span style="font-family: inherit;">, at the <span style="font-family: inherit;">s</span>ame time, </span>rescue America from <span style="font-family: inherit;">what many believe<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">to be an </span></span></span>unsustainable and overly pro-active<span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>US foreign policy<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">In short, to put <i>America first.</i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Recent
events, support this view. In North Korea, Iraq and Syria, America has
played a much smaller part than has been the case in similar <span style="font-family: inherit;">conflicts that occurred </span>during the Bush and Obama/Clinton years. Since Trump was engineered
into the Whitehouse, it has been <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8a2b2696-33f7-11e8-ae84-494103e73f7f" style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">China</span></a> and not the USA that
has put in place the diplomatic arrangements for North Korea to make their
peace with the South and shelve their nuclear plans. Similarly, it was<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>and still is, Russia, and not the USA, that has control of the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syrian-war-ending-bashar-al-assad-won-robert-fisk-syria-middle-east-israel-british-troops-a7933966.html" style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">civil war in Syria</span></a>.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, what next?
Will this recent escalation of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33521655"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Middle Eastern conflict</span></a>, triggered
by the USA pulling out of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33521655"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Iranian nuclear peace treaty</span></a>,
be resolved by American military might, or will it, once again, be left to
others<span style="font-family: inherit;">: </span>Russia, China and possibly Israel and Iran this time, to resolve the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/may/15/gaza-israel-nakba-day-protests-as-palestinians-bury-those-killed-in-embassy-unrest-live-updates"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Pal</span></a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/may/15/gaza-israel-nakba-day-protests-as-palestinians-bury-those-killed-in-embassy-unrest-live-updates"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">estinian</span></a> impasse? </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My point
is that the World should not be surprised that Donald Trump is putting
into practise what he said he <span style="font-family: inherit;">wanted </span>do <span style="font-family: inherit;">all along</span>. In his inauguration speech, and a
million times before and since, the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/us2016/results"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">forty-fifth president of the United
States</span></a> said he was going to put America first. The wider <span style="font-family: inherit;">i</span>nternational
community, now have to plan for the probability that putting <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-america-first/514037/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">America first</span></a> means Donald
Trump is not going to continue to <span style="font-family: inherit;">sink</span> trillions of dollars trying to resolve recurring
and insurmountable, international conflicts. As the World gets
used to an inward looking North America, other countries will be increasingly expected to
step-up and make a<span style="font-family: inherit;"> far</span> larger contribution towards settling the World's
conflicts themselves. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
<a href="https://www.ancient.eu/palestine/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Ancient
History of Palestine</span></a> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">More this
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A tree growing through an old car <a href="https://t.co/aOn7SVarbT">pic.twitter.com/aOn7SVarbT</a></div>
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<b>Since I was child there has been starvation in Africa, but fifty years on
and in the run up to <a href="http://colonisation%20is%20enforcing%20control%20on%20one%20country%20by%20another./">Sports
Relief</a> is it not now the time to acknowledge that the traditional approach
to the African crisis is not working and that an alternative approach that
focuses on structural change and increased <a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/why-we-have-always-needed-socialism.html">equality</a>
across Africa is the way forward. </b><br />
<br />
There are some African economic success stories, Nigeria, Rwanda, South
Africa (although SA remains one of the most unequal society in the world) and promoting
these and learning from their experience will, I believe, raise more money for
those suffering than marketing Africa as a melting pot of illness, death and
disease.<br />
<br />
It's also time, perhaps, to listen more carefully to the people that
actually live and work in Africa and listen a good deal less to those celebrities
employed by charities and especially those celebrities who have avoided taxes
and unearned fortunes at the same time as asking people less wealthy than
themselves to dig deep. <br />
<br />
If you want something to change then doing the same thing over and over
again simply won't work. Maybe now is the time for a more positive approach to
Africa where charitable organisations develop a different approach to the enduring and complex
problems that Africa faces and instead of having to put endless sticking plasters on Africa's problems, charities should work towards tackling the root causes of suffering
and aim to reconstruct the economic and cultural support systems the<a href="http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-colonization-of-africa.html">
Imperialist Europeans</a> dismantled in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
as well as devising ways to compensate the African people for the resources,
the gold, diamonds and oil, that the colonisers stole from them. <br />
<br />
<b>More information</b><br />
<a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eamsp/eng-11-globalization.htm">Imperialism</a>
is the idea that dives the practice of Colonialism i.e. taking over of a
country's government systems and culture by force. Colonisation is enforcing
control on one country by another.<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/scramble_for_africa_article_01.shtml">Slavery and the Scramble for Africa</a><br />
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<b>Following the 1948 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/tyne-and-wear-case-study/about-the-group/public-administration/the-1848-public-health-act/">Public Health Act</a>
the Secretary of State for Health had a legal obligation to provide
universal health care. In 2012, by passing the </b><b><b><b><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/contents/enacted">Health and Social Care Act</a>, the Coalition Government </b></b>removed the duty to
provide universal heath care and enshrined </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">in law </b><b>instead the
right of the Secretary of State for Health to develope a marketised, insurance based healthcare system. Six years on and Drs and Nurses on the frontline tell us that the NHS is being privatised, contract-by-contract, right under their noses.</b><span data-offset-key="cb14e-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><br />
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So where's the saving made when contracting out chunks of the NHS? Surely, for an
organisation with such a fantastically well motivated staff, outsourcing is a distraction and just adds on another tier of management. On top of the beaurocratic cost of outsourcing healthcare, there's the reality that part of the money
spent on buying in NHS services goes straight into the pockets of the private business owners that, quite naturally, want
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Managers, spending their days trying to decide
between competing healthcare suppliers while sick patients stuck in ambulances, or being treated in privately owned hospital car parks, must be agonisingly difficult, but this is what a marketised healthcare system looks like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Privatisatisation of the NHS is unwanted, unnecessary and,
worst of all, is failing the public miserablly - but it doesn’t have to be like
this.<br />
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If in 1948, after being bankrupted by two World Wars, the UK could
afford to provide Universal Health Care, why is it today, with the sixth largest
economy in the World after France, that we are told that the Government can't afford to pay for a publicly run Health Service, or <a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.com/2018/07/nurses-flee-nhs-for-lidl-wages_3.html">pay doctors and nurses properly?</a> And why is it that the Government conditions us to expect that the only way forward for the NHS is to systematically outsource healthcare contract-by-contract to private companies?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The argument that the UK can't afford the NHS is a mendacious
myth put about by a Government selling the lie to unwitting NHS Managers and the rest of us that the only way to save the NHS is
through the <i>miracle</i> of private enterprise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>NHS management is torn between their belief in the provision of Universal Healthcare enshrined in the 1948 Act and
the certain knowledge their employment is dependent on the inexorable shift
towards a marketised healthcare system that has removed by law the
duty of the Secretary of State for Health to provide Universal Healthcare for all.</div>
<br />
<a href="https://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/general-election-2015-is-nhs-safe-in.html">What Drs say about NHS funding</a><br />
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care">The Department for Health and Social Care </a><br />
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<a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/why-we-have-always-needed-socialism.html">Why the people will always need socialism</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.studentguardian.co.uk/index.php/opinion-comment/2916-is-the-nhs-being-privatised-right-under-our-noses">Read the published article:</a><br />
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are expected to arrive at the <a href="http://www.guu.co.uk/">Glasgow
University Union</a> where students and graduates will be able to meet with
over forty of the UK's most sought after organisations looking for new
recruits. </b><br />
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This year’s<b> </b><a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/careers/employers/fair/marketplace-national/">Careers
& Internship Marketplace 2018</a> is a free national event organised by <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/careers/index.html">University's of Glasgow's
Careers Service</a> in conjunction with <a href="http://www.agcas.org.uk/">The
Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service</a> (AGCAS) and open to
students and graduates from all universities.<br />
Graduate and student job hunters from any university will get the chance to
hook up with employers from a wide range of industries and at the same time
find out more about opportunities tailored to meet today’s competitive jobs
market.<br />
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Employers from top business organisations in key UK employment sectors from
Software developers Codeplay to the global accountancy practices BDO LLP will
be at the Careers & Internship Marketplace and all of them will be looking
to recruit talented new graduates into both the private and public sectors.
Some of Scotland’s Top Universities will be attending in force too, as will be
NHS Scotland, the Royal Air Force, professional services multinational and
Times top-ranked graduate employer PwC and of course, the events main sponsors,
UNIQLO, the life wear clothing specialists and <a href="http://teachinscotland.scot/teaching-makes-people/">Scottish Government -
Teaching Makes People</a>.<br />
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This year you can pop along to the <i>Employers “Pitch it”</i> area where
employers get the chance show off what the have to offer. There’s also an
opportunity to get some free style advice from <i>Style-It</i> with Slaters
and a professional head and shoulders photo to make sure your social media
profile pic creates the perfect impression. There’s also a chance to get a
caricature of yourself drawn for you, a free prize draws to win a <a href="https://store.google.com/gb/config/google_home_mini?sku=_google_home_mini_chalk&gclid=Cj0KCQiAs9zSBRC5ARIsAFMtUXGPLbpnlbklMjrvzJFIk4fPCSVQPvlrK2w9MBB1BxI23ZkfchZMh9oaArY4EALw_wcB&dclid=CP7Qr6nqz9gCFcOIdwodDBsAbQ">Google
mini home smart speaker</a> and to top it off there’s live music from the
Glasgow University Music Club. <br />
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There’s such a lot happening at Glasgow University Union at the Careers and
Internship Market Place this year so make sure you get there early to make the
most of what promises to be an incredible day. The event will take place on
Wednesday 7th February, at the Glasgow University Union. Doors open at
11am until 3pm and there's no need to register until you arrive on the
door.<br />
Don’t miss this great opportunity. Entry is FREE.<br />
The Main sponsors are UNIQLO and Scottish Government Makes People with the
event organised by Glasgow University Careers Service in conjunction with
AGCAS. Find out which top employers are going to the fair: <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/careers/employers/fair/marketplace-national/">Full
Exhibitor list.</a><br />
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For more information visit: <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/careers/index.html">University of
Glasgow's Careers Service</a><br />
Keep in touch using the #UofGMarketplace and up-to-date information, or you
can also sign up to GUC’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/134092294037676/">Facebook Events Page</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.studentguardian.co.uk/index.php/student-life-2/2915-careers-and-internship-market-place-2018-glasgow-university-union-7th-february">Read the published article </a>Anthony Bounds | Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11569793902825822030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606401209387080119.post-4090591458855191052018-01-16T11:29:00.005+00:002023-04-22T10:12:32.871+01:00Why are people poor? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This article is work-in-progress and motivated by the assumption made by some that if
you're poor it's pretty much your own fault and you're probably lazy. </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span>Your comments are welcome...</span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true">Some say, that if you're poor it must somehow be down to the bad decisions you've made<span style="font-family: inherit;">, or that you<span style="font-family: inherit;">'</span>re just plain la<span style="font-family: inherit;">zy<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></span>While
it's possible that this is partly true, I want to explore other causes of poverty that
more completely explain why living rough, or just getting by is more
than an life choice. </span></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true">Why is it then that the better off argue that the reason why people have less than they do is somehow their own fault?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It could be that the world's financial elite are worried that the poor are sucking up to much of their income in taxes. In theory, this may be true, as middle and top earners do pick up a larger chunk of the governments tax bill, but, as the <a href="https://panamapapers.icij.org/">Panama Papers Investigation</a> has uncovered, by using complicated financial instruments, very rich companies and individuals using clever lawyers, limited liability and </span><span style="font-size: medium;">tax havens, to minimise what they pay in tax. In practice those in the know are able to choose how much they pay. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0" style="font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true">I'm not arguing that hard work is wrong; who would begrudge those working long hours and sweetly paying their taxes, my point is that hard work is not necessarily a virtue in itself, or the primary reason why people with money have it in the first place. </span></span></span></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0" style="font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0" style="font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true">If it is others doing nothing that upsets the wealthy then why do they go out of their way to avoid doing their own chores, looking after their own children, cooking their own dinner or washing gthenir own car? Instead they employ the very same class of people to work so they don't have to: having their children babysat full time at school, fed by chefs sweating in their kitchen and being fawned over at their dinner table as they pretend to be king for the evening. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0" style="font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0" style="font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true">Rather than set an example, the rich demonstrate, how it is possible to do be idol to exist and then have the colossal cheek to criticise those with nothing of laziness.</span></span><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0" style="font-size: medium;"><span data-text="true"> While it is true that the very rich and the very poor may well do nothing, but for some and those that's a luxurious choice and for those at the very bottom condition that is hellishly difficult to escape from. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true">In this secular age empty churches routinely converted into flats parishioners are no longer fooled by the
unthinkingly <a href="https://psmag.com/economics/protestant-worth-ethic-real-65544">protestant work ethic</a> that flogging your guts out is the only certain path to heaven. Today governments dependent on big business for their survival (if not political purpose) encourage people to work hard for their bosses by giving them hope. Unfortunately, however, hope is a commodity in short supply both here in the UK and in the mighty USA. It was no accident that near
messiah Barack Obama's electoral slogan was "Hope and Change" but the problem was that there was so little hope and change around in 2015/6 that hundreds of millions of working class Middle Americans turned to <a href="http://a-j-b.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Donald%20Trump">Donald Trump</a>. </span></span></span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="ddg9b" data-offset-key="eplmj-0-0">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="3ggs-0-0"><span data-text="true">What
gets people out of bed in the morning isn't a fear of appearing lazy in the eyes of neo-conservatives it is optimistic feelings, however
nebulous, that as long as they are sufficiently tenacious, there will be a reasonable
chance that their effort will be rewarded with a decent standard of
living. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="3ggs-0-0"><span data-text="true">While there may well be a link between hard work and financial gain,
but, as far can see, the will to work has little to do with indolence and is more to
do with what a person believes they are worth and the reward our
market-led economic system decides is the minimum it can get away with paying them.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="3ggs-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true">People aren't poor because they're bone-idol, they're poor
because they neither have the luxury of inherited wealth, or are
equipped with the skills that happen to be in demand at a particular
period in time. In short being poor the world over is, pretty much, down to access to education and luck.</span></span><b><span data-offset-key="c2a8f-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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