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Back to the 60s. To explain this, one has to go back to 1964, when Harold Wilson won his first Labour general election, with a narrow 4 seat majority over Alex Douglas Home’s Conservatives. Having been left with a £800 million deficit, and the books not in a good state. But you could say weContinue reading “What you’re not told about the events before the winter of discontent by the right wing media”

A year i will never forget. Most people should remember George Orwell’s 1984, but there were many events that remind me of 1986 probably far more, without very much coaxing or soul searching. And especially this year because we have the Commonwealth Games back in the UK, the only difference being this year it’s inContinue reading “1986”

Connections or Coincidences take your choice. I have always preferred connections over coincidences, because i’ve always believed everything is connected, while coincidences only happen every now and again. This is why i started this blog with the header Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd, and thought i would also add the music videoContinue reading “Another Brick in the Wall”

Reaching my fifties: Having reached my fifties, with both children grown and left home, but not far away. And enjoying the daily challenges that my job entailed. Then trying to master the new dial up internet,and the online poker sites etc. While thinking not much bothers me apart from praying the phone line behaves, whileContinue reading “My First Real Internet Lesson”

Colin Baker. 2021. The more i look back with age, my life has been like scenes from a stage play, full of different acts of personal emotional and educating experiences. With a gambling thread running throughout, controlled by the daily challenges of work, with added responsibility of raising a family; which did not end whenContinue reading “The Misundestood Gambler”

An old blog from 2010. As we brace ourselves for the most vicious cuts since the War, i would like to correct a few lies, yes blatent lies, by this Con-Dem Government. Lie one: That the UK is close to bankruptcy. Absolute nonsense, just to scaremonger the electorate, to accept the cuts without a whimper.Continue reading “Lies,lies and Mistruths.”

Some more favourites.

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An Introduction to some of my views on Anti-Semitism in general and the Conservative party since its birth in 1834. There’s been a lot said and written by our media, mainstream and social about racism and anti-semitism over the last dozen years, and mainly the last four years. After the very close general election resultContinue reading “Why i think the media has given the Conservative party an unfair reprieve in recent years.”