The Tories are crap, and now they’re enabling crap to – literally – ruin our beaches. Swathes of the south coast have been ruined by water companies pumping sewage directly into coastal waters, and they’re doing this because they can. Under-investment and failures to hit performance targets haven’t stopped fatcat executives from granting themselves bonuses. […]
To quote from here: Early childbirth is especially dangerous for adolescents and their infants. Compared to women between the ages of 20-35, pregnant women under 20 are at a greater risk for death and disease including bleeding during pregnancy, toxemia, hemorrhage, prolonged and difficult labor, severe anemia, and disability. Life-long social and economic disadvantages may […]
An American Buddhist nun called Perma Chödrön wrote a famous self-help book called When Things Fall Apart, she later expounded on the message of the first book with a follow up, subtitled A Guide to Fearlessness. The books give advice to dealing with personal crises such as the loss of a loved one, or dealing […]
In previous posts, I’d taken ‘David’ Thiessen to task for his horrendous takes on child-rape and abortion. Today, I do so again, via both his latest post on the subject, and via a Christian Post article that ‘David’ refers to. People may not have liked our position on the 10-year-old girl being raped, but there […]
We’re very much into summer, and there’s a few things to look forward to, but what has been going on these past two weeks?! Forgive the, ah, grim nature of this opening bit, but invariably, we get to politics, and some decidedly Not Suitable For Work stuff (in more ways than one!) Johnson Blows UK […]
This post is going to be folded into a Meerkat Muse, but how could I pass up the opportunity to mention the news that Boris Johnson, one of the worst PMs in British history, is resigning! Let’s be real, he should have resigned a long time ago, for a host of reasons, but let’s take […]
This latest take on guns, gun control, rights and freedom, comes via a site called Seek the Truth. I don’t know the name of the person who wrote the post, so I will refer to them as Seek, until I learn otherwise. Suffice to say, they make a number of anti-gun control arguments, that I […]
Welcome back ‘kats, to the latest edition of your favourite show, the Meerkat Muse! We kick things off with a topic that’s been in the news a lot… The Platinum Jubilee On the 2nd of June, Queen Elizabeth II marked her Platinum Jubilee, celebrating 70 years as the UK’s monarch. Her reign officially began on […]
As I trawl WordPress, I find a lot of posts relating to guns, gun control, and the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment. These are subjects I have tackled before, more than once (the last four words all link to a different post), but the topic keeps coming up, because A: gun violence in the USA seems […]
We have arrived at the halfway point of 2022! So Close… but so far… The Premier League season came to its conclusion on the 22nd of May, and a season defined by narrow margins came down to the wire, with my beloved Liverpool missing out on the title by one meagre point. At one stage […]
Breached the 70K mark on my wip! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
This is just sheer absolute, exquisite beauty.
I have eaten too much pizza.
I don't think it's up to you to decide what's best for women, nor whether or not men can find them attractive...
In recent days I have been having a ‘back and forth’ with Citizen Tom on the subject of education. Tom believes that education should be in private hands, which he believes would therefore be subject to the whim and will of parents. He does not like what state education teaches, and considers it to immoral. […]
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