General Discussion
Is it my eyes or does one of your photos show two cyclists riding their bikes along the sea wall?
Here's another link. It will take you to a critique of a book entitled 'We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain's Suburban Terrorists' by Raffaello Pantucci, Director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n16/owen-bennett-jones/we-and-you
On this petrochemical revenue business. This is a finite resource. At some point oil will run out. Then what? Heard on the tv the other day that when we had those glorious days of sunshine a few days back huge amounts of electricity got generated by all the solar panels in this country. Trouble is we don't have a lot of sunshine here though, do we (although with climate change..........?). ...
Article here about how a change in UK foreign policy re the Islamist terrorist threat won't make any difference. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/delusion-terror-attacks-just-about-foreign-policy and article here about how western military intervention increased terrorist threat to the west. ...
@Andrew - the reason I referred to western military intervention is because that is so often put forward as the only or main explanation for the rise of Islamist terrorism. It isn't. As you say, anything 'western' or anything indeed within the Muslim world that deviates from Wahhabist fundamentalist beliefs are things not tolerated by the Wahhabist sect. So a question to be asked (and to ...
Info here explaining the ideology of Wahhabism and the Saudi Arabia connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism I have just been listening to a tv debate about Islamist terrorism. The following points were made: 1.Whilst the military intervention of some western countries in the Middle East may well have acted as a Jihadi recruiting sergeant, the ideology of Wahhabism ...
Delicate subject given what happened in Manchester on Monday. But of the many articles I have read over the past few days the one that can be read via this link I thought the most illuminating https://www.pressreader.com/uk/i-newspaper/20170525/281870118384984 Click on the link above and then put the cursor to the right of the page clicking on the arrow to continue reading.
Probably going to regret posting this but..... Anyone any thoughts on how Westminster ( both the Lords and the Commons) could be reformed with regard to financial remuneration? And on a not unrelated point. Why is the term 'career politician' a derogatory one? After all we don't use the expression 'career accountant' or 'career dentist'. Do we not like ambition in this country? Or is ...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/plan-to-confiscate-grans-house-and-steal-your-inheritance-strangely-unpopular-20170525128189
All, In case you are unaware, the Daily Mash is an online satirical magazine.
