Entries Tagged as 'News'
Aspects for the week beginning 18 June 2017
Grenfell Tower – Emotional Responses It has been an intense few weeks in the U.K. and we are recovering from the Manchester bombing, closely followed by the London Bridge terror attack, then an extraordinary election, and now this week the horrifying spectre of the Grenfell Tower, black against the London skyline. There has been so […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 11 June 2017
Theresa May alliance with the D.U.P This has been a long week in politics, and few have foreseen the karmic drama resulting from this election: the ringing endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn, and a hung parliament being managed by a diminished Theresa May, self-sabotaged, allying with a regressive Irish party. I would have loved to change […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 4 June 2017
London Bridge Terrorism Attack It is another heavy hearted day for the U.K. and our capital London. At 10.08 pm last night, a white van drove over London Bridge, killing and maiming pedestrians. Then three men from the van made their way to nearby Borough Market, and wove their way in and out of coffee […]
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U.K. General Election 2017 (Part 2)
“At 21.59 and 59 seconds on 7 May 2015, anything seemed possible. Outside of opening exam results, or waiting on news from a doctor, there aren’t too many moments in life where your whole future hangs on what you’re about to see or hear… I thought there was a chance I’d be delivering Britain’s next […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 23 April 2017
UK General Election 2017 “Not that she wanted to be seen as a prime minister who didn’t keep her word. The problem was the opposition. They were doing the wrong thing by opposing her. Never mind that they weren’t being very effective, the problem was that they existed at all.” ~ John Crace, The Guardian […]
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Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron France goes to the polls today, in the first round of their national elections. Following on from my blog two weeks ago about Marine Le Pen, I would like to concentrate on the other front runner, centrist Emmanuel Macron. Since that blog, the other two candidates have come up in the ratings, and […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 9 April 2017
Marine Le Pen The first round of the French presidential election is due to be held on 23rd April 2017, and Europe is holding its breath. After last year’s triumph for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the White House, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the far right could […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 26 March 2017
Westminster Terror On Wednesday, Westminster Bridge was the scene of a terrorist incident and Parliament and its surrounding buildings were in lockdown. A British born man, Khalid Masood, drove into passersby then tried to enter the gates of Parliament, and stabbed a policeman to death. Five people died in total, including the perpetrator, and fifty […]
Martin McGuinness (1950 – 2017)
Martin McGuinness (1950 – 2017) “Martin was also a deeply committed Irish republican activist who in his youth was confronted by the naked sectarianism and injustice of the British state in Ireland, and stood strong against it. As a result he was imprisoned and spent long periods on the run”. ~ Gerry Adams Terrorism The […]
Aspects for the week beginning 19 March 2017
George Osborne George Osborne was in the firing line this week over his acquisition of multiple jobs, since being fired by Theresa May as Chancellor. He is M.P. for Hatton, recently started work with fund management firm BlackRock at £650,000 per year, has earned £800,000 per year in public speaking, and on Friday this week […]
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