In the run up to the 2010 UK elections I thought I’d run a series of posts highlighting the major issues that the UK currently faces. First up and probably not for the last time, debt! If you are not alarmed by our national debt, then you should be (I also invite you to have a quick look at your bank balance to make sure it’s ok) it is up to you to pay it back.

£899 billion owed, so only £14,000 for every man women and child in the …

It’s 2010 and recently I’ve been thinking more about what seems like a shift in foreign policy and global politics. I love conspiracy theories, from aliens to JFK, the Beatles to 911. This post largely will centre around the theory that we are slowly entering a 5 state ruling political system. 1984, great book, great author and an interesting social commentary on what might come to pass. Extreme as 1984 is, the book worked so well because I could immerse myself in the belief that this isn’t too far removed …

A question that I have asked myself for a while is who owns the Bank of England? This post is dedicated to shedding some light on the matter.
BANK OF ENGLAND ACT 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 27)
An Act to bring the capital stock of the Bank of England into public ownership and bring the Bank under public control, to make provision with respect to the relations between the Treasury, the Bank of England and other banks and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[14 February 1946]

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Swine flu is something that I have wanted to post about since I it first reared its ugly little head. The more I read the less I’m interested, the more it’s hyped the less I care, for some reason I feel like I’m the only person who thinks this way. Do a Google search for the term swine flu and you’ll have 10 million results. Turn on the evening news and if it has been a slow day it will feature, the same goes here for newspapers.
Everywhere you turn …

Motorways and what not. I sir, sit here on a jammed motorway for little reason than over crowding, poor drivers and unnecessary speed restrictions.
I’m on my back from Bristol to London travelling some 120 miles and for once I have sat my sorry arse on a packed bus, which is sweltering in the only way a British bus could. And as I watch the constant gaggle of cars amassing around our coach. I conclude as I have done countless times before that people really don’t know how to drive …

More men have stepped on the moon than imprinted their soles at the deepest depths of the earths Ocean. Why has humanity been staring at the heavens when the worlds most important resource surrounds the land we stand on. In this TED talk Sylvia Earle quotes the Poet Auden, “Thousands have lived without love. None without water” and goes talks with precision and humility about the enormity of the problem we all face. 97% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water and for the past millennium and in particular …

Scandal Scandal Scandal… My usual evening is greeted with cooking or eating while I digest Channel 4’s News programme. For me it is the only news broadcast with the exception of perhaps Newsnight that I find both informative and a issue breaker, a true boardsheet for TV. Tonight we were brought the backlash of protesters in Iran as the principal story and while I was going to write a few thoughts about this. I feel compelled as a human to echo the scandal that is the world food programme in …

for at least the last 10 years I have been hearing about Britain becoming increasingly more obese. I for one don’t have to see statistics to know that it is true. Today the British government launched their latest initiative to try and reverse the trend, cunningly they have devised a marketing campaign warning people of the dangers! The BBC details more about this campaign, but in essence it will be a public health warning like any other, “do this for long enough and you’ll die.” It seems to be this …

Kids are getting dumber. Now of course for me to able to say this I am already being judgmental of others, even further to this I am actively dismissing their value and I don’t mean to be. I’m just seeing that the official government sanctioned trends are that populations are getting smarter, but each time the latest exam results are released the more I hear that it’s not the kids that are getting smarter but the exams easier. So in a giant leap of faith, which I have little will …

Should the those who have power over us, seek to control us? We all know that they already do, but when will the people take back control of their own lives? and is that even possible in todays world. Our elected governments are given the right engage and manipulate every facet of our lives. We are educated by their systems, their standards, their subjects. We are subject to their laws, their taxes, their management of their own mandate, a mandate which influences every corner of our being. Now suppose you …