Nicola Sturgeon claims in today's First Minister's Question: "it is the easiest thing in the world to get up and diagnose the problem." Really? Most medical doctors would like to know how, and I am sure medical students would like to know how to shorten their course of studies. Rather, it is easy to see …
Category: Politics
The cost of abandoning sin
There is a literal cost when society abandons the concept of sin. Many people will find that it reduces their bank balance. The state fines people when they break its laws. On the other hand, God calls the breaking of His law 'sin' and He gives sinners a verbal warning. Fines reduce one's bank balance; …
Aggressive secularism
Britain is reaching a tipping point. The language battle has been one of several tools in the armoury of aggressive secularism. There are others. After softening up British society for many decades, we have now reached the critical tipping point of legislative enactment. Although Brexit is important, it risks taking people's eye off the ball. …
The language battle
The language battle has been in progress for well over a century, but it is now reaching a critical tipping point. Take for example the family. The European Convention on Human Rights says that everyone is entitled to family life. However, when the definition of a family is changed to include homosexual couples, their right to …
Do PDFs save paper?
PDF files are excellent, but do they save paper? How many emails do you receive that ask you to consider whether you need to print it out? Our environmentally conscious age is trying to save paper. PDFs are excellent as one can highlight them, annotate them, remove the annotation, change them, add to them, etc. …
Every idle word that men shall speak…
The language battle is heating up. Redefining marriage is the most spectacular and far-reaching milestone on the secular journey to destroy Christian values in western society, but the language battle began a long time ago with tolerating swearing and blasphemy. Christian terms such as Jesus, Christ, God, Lord, heavens above, hell and damn are all …
The risk in disposing of electronic devices
When you buy a new electronic device, do you consider how you will dispose of it? When your computer dies there are implications for identity theft if you do not dispose of it properly. You may have heard about hard drives from disposed computers being examined in distant countries to discover the identity of the …
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Fighting for consumers
My long battle on behalf of consumers continues. Consumers are receiving a raw deal nowadays. Whereas the internet and online shopping is excellent, there is a down side to which retailers and consumers are not giving enough attention. This downside is experienced by many consumers, too many of whom simply accept it and move on. …
Market research surveys
Do you know when you are filling in a Market Research survey? Some people are happy enough to do so, but what if you do not know if you are doing so? Today I was asked by a well-known retail chain for my email at payment. Okay - it is in the public domain. I …
Whose sovereignty is it anyway?
The crisis in current democracy can be traced to a clash of sovereignties. In the past, royal authority was supreme, and sovereignty resided in the monarch. However the abuses of the Stuart monarchies in the 17th century, based on their idea of 'the divine right of kings', led to Parliamentary democracy being pioneered in Britain, …
Donald's Thoughts 