Driving a motor vehicle is the most dangerous activity in which most people engage on a regular basis. So one might think that people would learn how to drive more safely and pay more attention to it. Yet many people do not do so. One meets all types on the road. Driving is one activity …
Category: Campaigning
Children’s Hearings in Scotland
BBC Newsnight on 3/8/2018 drew attention to concerns that the Child Protection Service in Norway is taking too many children into care. The same concerns should be publicized in Scotland. The British media has publicised 'separation anxiety' experienced by children being separated from their parents at the American-Mexico border. The same British media is behind …
Invoices, emails and warranties
I have a three-year warranty for my laptop computer with Hewlett-Packard. The start date of the warranty is wrong. When I emailed HP customer care to correct it, forwarding the original email response confirming my purchase, they wanted ‘a scan of the hardware invoice’, which I sent. This begs two questions: 1. what use is …
Megaphones in public demonstrations
In the light of President Donald Trump's recent visit to London and Scotland, the following letter was sent to London and Glasgow national newspapers. Although it raises a significant matter for debate, it was not published. Sir,The flying of a giant balloon of a baby Donald Trump over London, and its tour around the UK, …
Football or armwrestling?
The clue is in the name. Football is about manoeuvring a ball with one's feet. Some are good at it and others are not. The range of skill is great, from very good to mediocre and even bad and very bad. The footworking skill of good footballers is being spoiled by the armwrestling tactics of …
A disgrace to football
It is a disgrace to football to witness the number of teams in the Russian World Cup 2018 who physically wrestled Harry Kane to the ground to prevent his reaching the ball in the penalty area, even in front of the referee in England's win against Colombia last night. This is not football, far less …
Dishonest dialogue
Everyone forms their own opinions but most are very poor at defending them. They assert their opinions but if debate becomes too awkward for them, they simply walk away. They do not want to change their opinions nor to have them exposed, even to themselves. This is because they do not engage in honest dialogue. …
Unbelief and victim abuse
Victim abuse occurs when a victim's account of their abuse is not believed. It has surfaced in recent times because historically rape victims were not believed. It is slowly being applied to domestic abuse where abused persons have been forced to leave their domestic home because they are not believed to be victims. However, it …
Taking complaints seriously
Too late, Jeremy Corbyn is discovering the effects of not taking seriously the complaints about antisemitism in the Labour Party. He is now on the back foot and trying to salvage the situation with as much damage limitation as he can muster. Russia and Vladimir Putin are discovering the same. After thinking they could ignore …
Built-in obsolence
Not enough consumers know about built-in obsolescence, which would inform their shopping habits. Built-in obsolescence is the deliberate limiting and shortening the useful life of products. The latest example is Apple's confirmation that it deliberately slows down some models of its iPhone as they age. It explains and justifies doing so in order to match …
Donald's Thoughts 