Dominic Cumming has confirmed, what I have often suspected, that Government ministers are just nodding heads for the civil service.

They are briefed by the civil service and even cabinet meetings are choreographed. It must be depressing for thinking politicians that they are not able to do their own thinking. It is all scripted for them by the civil service.

I often wondered how Government ministers could pick up a new brief so quickly, but it appears that they simply need to learn their lines, like actors.

Led by the nose

However, it is a common experience of human beings to be led by the nose.

One of the most important mediums for mass indoctrination is music, which leads large numbers of adoring fans by the nose.

Music has an extraordinary effect upon the human spirit and on human behaviour. Songs determine the theology of a church, which is why they should sing the biblical Psalms, and songs determine the character of a people.

Critical thinking

Jesus Christ teaches criticial thinking to His people. There are many aspects to this teaching, but in this case if one removes the music from the words, many a musical performance amounts to very little value, and sometimes the words are positively harmful.

A letter in The Times on 19/5/2021 claimed that children and indeed adults seldom listen to the words, let alone think about them. The tune is what matters.

It reminds me of the Pied Piper leading away the children of the town with his music.

One of Scotland’s unofficial National Anthems Flower of Scotland has a catchy tune, and its words may be appropriate in some settings, but why Scotland should continue to define itself by England at national football and rugby matches suggests an unhealthy Scottish nationalist sentiment. It even includes the lines “That fought and died for / Your wee bit hill and glen.” There are better things to die for, and love for the motherland or fatherland was used both by Hitler and Stalin in the Second World War to drive millions to their untimely death; nor has the sentiment died with them. Take away the catchy tune, and do we have a national ode that is anything more than historic? How does it apply in our time, unless it is a call to rise again to fight and die for your wee bit hill and glen? Are such sentiments appropriate in our era? However, “the tune is what matters” and how few consider that the words are stirring a nationalist and anti-English spirit. Scotland can identify its national character, contribution and standing in the world by better sentiments than these.

Similarly, the French national anthem has a stirring warlike tune, matching the warlike words and yet again invoking “the Fatherland” as its motive. However, warlike hymns have been abandoned long ago, so how do we justify such warlike words now, unless we interpret them as metaphors for non-violent opposition – a lesson taught by Jesus Christ, but a lesson not learned by the Crusaders moved by the pope of Rome, nor by the international leadership perpetuating war to the present time. The Prince of Peace is left out of the equation and people continue to sing their catchy tunes with little thought given to their warlike words.

The UK has a puppet Government and the major influencers of our children are musicians, and of adults the mainstream media and social media. They have long ago missed out on what they could have learned from the Bible.

We need to return to biblical Christianity and learn how assess the truth, speak the truth and appreciate the truth.

One could begin by singing the biblical Psalms and learning from them what godly behaviour is.