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Unqualified Success and Abject Failure
As the world braces itself for a second Trump presidency, it becomes clear that incompetence and ignorance are no longer disqualifications—they’re badges of honor, not blots on the résumé.
The lunatic-in-chief is handing out the keys to the asylum.
An anti-vax crackpot with brain worms is set to become Health Czar. A man with just a couple of years of experience at the bar, who has been investigated for sex trafficking, was the pick for Attorney General. A Fox TV host is lined up as Secretary of Defense, and the darling of Russia Today has been chosen as Director of National Intelligence.
In such a world, I feel suitably ill-informed and unqualified to offer my two-penneth on a wide range of topics well beyond my understanding.
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Twisted Tongues
In a world where instant gratification is too long a wait for many, there has been an arms race in unrealistic language learning expectations.
Mankind: More Man, Less Kind
Homo Sapiens arrived late on the scene in the already long and well established drama of life on planet Earth. Centre stage was held by fierce carnivores, red in tooth and claw.
Creation Myths and Cosmic Realities
For the first 300,000 years of human existence, our known universe extended as far as the horizon visible from the furthest point our legs could carry us, bounded by the stretch of sky above us.
Loughborough Fair
On the second weekend of November, the entire centre of our hometown, Loughborough, is subsumed by the annual fair. It began in 1221 as a livestock and hiring fair, and it has been held every year since,
The Triumph of Hate
In 2016, American blue-collar workers felt forgotten, abandoned, and ready to try something radical. Bernie Sanders, a lifelong advocate for workers’ rights, energised young Americans more than any politician since the ’60s. But, unsurprisingly, the Establishment Democrats sidelined him, opting instead for the more Wall-Street-friendly and seemingly “safer” Hillary Clinton.
Election Turnout
Voting is now underway in the U.S. presidential election, and its outcome seems to be a coin toss.
As recently as a week ago, the best-informed analysts’ predictions were for a probable Electoral College landslide for one of the candidates. They just couldn’t say which one!