you should belong to three units in life only one of which should exercise national political power.
The Individual
The family
The nation
anything else is supernumerary and designed to distort real democracy
The individual should be the only politically active unit in an idealised democracy and all decisions local or national should be informed by the composite measured views of the whole of the individuals there-in’s collective opinion on offered decisional questions.
one of the occasions in the 20th century when a country was artificially created on the basis of a work of religious fiction.
euromove you are biased a biased organisation and quite obviously a propaganda mouthpiece for the european union ? as a struggling native of a country whose sovereignty the european union effectively destroyed in 1992 with the maastricht treaty, without providing a democratic referendum to the people who would be subject to it, I would say you have been the greatest threat to all the people of europe’s identity in the last 2000 years, I despise your website and the fetid and bloated bureaucracy that is the european union and wish it nothing but ill and dissolution.
reddit rests its hat on the partisan binary use of trite wit and not balanced argument
F**k Borders ey – ? John Lennons “imagine” as he clearly suggests in his own lyrics, makes him a dreamer, No borders means – no sovereignty, means no cultural self determinism, means no natives, and eventually no identifiable meaningful cultural differentiation, except for a few dances for the tourists, ask how the native indian population would be without the mild respite of reservations and lands ? where giant international corporations get to move the cheapest most pliable labour forces and migrate them to where they wish to conduct they’re business, admittedly merica was founded on immigration in its modern sense, & can never shirk that statement, but imposing such ideologies on other nations is another matter, I for one quite clearly realise that a borderless world, could lead to the most depressing form of consumer based totalitarianism human history could have ever imagined, the world run by corporations for they’re benefit, and people just an abused permanently en-debted labour force within it for the sake of a roof and food to survive, democracy effectively a spineless mirage to distract the masses, some say were already there. Give the immigrant three generations and see what he thinks of the border then.
The Mastricht Treaty in 1992 combined with schengen in 1995 effectively dissolved european borders and effectively by implication sovereignty and national self determinism also, all of this done without resort to a referendum for all but three of the european nations populations involved, that was the turning point, ask europeans how they feel about it now and you will discover there average citizen who struggles has become worse off, Europe is run by the germans for the germans, there is almost complete economic dis-harmony between the nations, that isn’t what Churchill imagine when he created its predecessor the EEC for trade, had he realised it would eventually end up dissolving sovereignty, he would be appalled, as it would have undone his prior defence of britains sovereignty.
A tighter border means less people pressure on housing, but those that run the economy want to keep the workers here under pressure, so the border is porous, & space is expensive & dont delude yourselves that increased numbers of people and slow building rates of inappropriate & undesired housing, does not impact rental costs or house prices … how can it not? when the building rate does not match demand or provide a cost effective alternative as wages have in relative form declined, were caught between the cost of land in london, regulations & labour to build new being too costly, and that which is built of being unsatisfactory quality, meaning new builds are bad value generally, here do you fancy a 25% share in a poxy block flat in far east london, & you can pay the other 75% in rent, WTF! forget that. Combined with people pressure through immigration into the major english urban centres, the government has failed to reign in the housing market, preferring to fantasize house price increases are a valid part of the growing economy , whereas really they have very little value to us as a nation except as a lever to put pressure on people & to lower living standards, compared to say something really economically useful like exports. Over the last 50 years the government has let the buy to let / rental market run away with itself as an investment opportunity for the multiple house owning wealthy, since rent caps were abandoned in the 60’s, at the expense of the non house owning classes, increasing societal division. Half the people on housing benefit are largely a cost to the government in the first place, because rental prices are beyond the reach of low wages thereby the government is subsidising big businesses costs, unless your an economically efficient immigrant living in a bedsit or flatshare. And in this recession the government protected the property speculator by holding base interest rates, rtificially low, making better profits for banks & preventing a housing bubble correction from occurring, as it has in america. The only solution is to reduce people pressure on the housing or to build allot more housing somehow affordably & at a good standard without despoiling the environment, to be honest rent capping needs to be re-introduced as punishment for the profiteering thats occurred over the last 40 years in the rental market & slow the market down, using a base rate increase to cause the hard medicine of price decline, as the cost of housing is damaging our economy by disenfranchising and dis-heartening the people who actually work for a living rather than invest, this would require government intervention, but the lazy government still has faith in the idea of free capitalist markets resolving such issues by themselves, which they have failed to achieve, as the market is only interested in profiteering rather than providing affordable housing to make a more equitable society, and all the holistic benefits societally that might flow from that, watch the “spirit of 45”, developers can’t cost effectively solve this problem whilst satisfying investors monetary greed, housing standards are poky, awful & declining. were between a rock & a hard place im afraid … welcome to England ! ;(
Wifi technical standards 802.xx etc as implemented dont seem to offer widespread and guaranteed compatibility, it’s a joke how so many of the chipsets don’t work well together or have flaws in their operation.
The cloud , btfon , etc and the other commercial wifi providers who operate in public are effectively just noise, its also evident to me that large coffee chains and hospitals , airports who use them are being lazy ? Just because they don’t understand wifi provision , they think outsourcing it to these companies is a good solution when in reality an open network would cost them very little, or even having these commercial wifi allow connections on the basis of registered device mac addresses which the router firmware determines by checking against a web located MySQL database, so that no web login is required for a provider once you have registered a device with them, as logging in takes too long, every time, what with flipping session timeouts, and bandwidth restrictions too small for streaming video etc, adding to the equation it’s all a real waste of life hidden under the catchphrase “free wifi here” certainly not free of pointless hassle, especially if the login web page doesn’t load immediately, and you have to try and force it to load, such pages loading are dependant on DNS being set to the router ip sometimes which is also real shitty. Basically I consider most of these wifi networks pollution and in fact it’s often faster to turn off wifi and use some of your 3G data plan for small web sessions or are on the move as your device may make the base connection to the wifi providers network and get jammed up, in data provision until wifi is turned off to allow priority for 3G data. If you have 3G etc, but really the demise of the free open networks in favour of these outsourced crappy commercial providers with web logins and charges is a very very sad affair, indicative of the shitty denominator things will nowadays collapse to in British culture, when reliant for provision of public services on the free market philosophical mantra.
Dear Stephen much as I did and still do admire your wit at points, your attempt to use your fame to unfairly sway political / societal agenda at every turn in cultures other than your own, and for the seemingly un-ending array of pet causes, I would take the advice of your agent whomever that may or may not be in imagining you may already be over exposed, your are not this ages Oscar Wilde, as a person who believes people of any sexual denomination can be decent people and have rights to their own sexual behaviour within their own home, they do not IMO whether heterosexual or lgbt have the right to shove their sexuality in other people’s faces, as I believe western culture if anything is over sexualised , and the idea of “sexual rights” a rather odd phrase in the sense that society has rarely any way of guaranteeing any rights ? they generally must garner them for themselves, the governments responsibility on the matter is to make clear, and this I think we can agree on . . . active prejudice toward other people of differing sexual orientations LGBT etc is emphatically wrong, to the extent that governments may not by their silence on such matters encourage societal hatred or physical violence toward such groups.
I on the other can also see Russia’s right to say That they do not wish to encourage the idea of allowing the dissemination of literature that biases or encourages minors below the age of 18 to identify with or sway their sexual orientation one way or another, it is also their democratic right as a nation to make such a choice. Sexuality isn’t something people should be encouraging people to make their mind up about, before the age of 18, Secondarily Russians might say that much older wealthy posh gay men from foreign more liberalistic cultures using their fame to try and tell russians how their culture should be, might seem a little arrogant, especially from cultures whose media class in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s seemed to quite extensively provide silent approval of the sexual abuse of minors by much older people. And there are a few words and phrases that describe sexual life stances I would like to discourage, regardless of whether people are heterosexual or lgbt.
Sexual promiscuity and unfaithfulness, this encourages disease transmission and is not to be perceived as good and normal and should not be promoted by any culture imo at the societal level.
Age abusive sexual predatory behaviour from the old and powerful to the younger less powerful members of society.
Prostitution I don’t think I need to describe why ?
Unprotected recreational casual sex between people in short term relationships.
Culture that promotes the casual-isation of sexual activity or the overt sexualisation of people and culture.
90 out of 100
A film that really succeeds in its attempt to time slice and stitch multiple stories across time together unlike so many others that fail at this, solidified by a strong cast and acting at a high level meryl streeps performance was mesmerising and julliannes also superb, Kidmans prosthetic nose as Virginia Wolfe was a little distracting, yet she provides such a good performance she acts her way out of you noticing it after a while. Ed Harris pulls out an amazing perfomance in this film, in fact to be honest this is one of those rare films in which every actor seems to have simultaneously magically brought their A game into a single confluence of genius. Fantastic work all round, everyone who worked on this film should rightfully be proud of it, great casting, fantastic writing with believable dialog, believable characterisations. A strong film in which both users and critics reviews are seemingly in agreement a good sign, if you only like action or violent films then don’t view, if you want to see a portayal of the range and depth of human psychological existence and life then you will enjoy this film. Philip Greens soundtrack is masterful and moving, this film is what the ‘art’ of cinema was invented for, beware it may well move you to tears as real human existence can.