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Mabinogogiblog: Congratulations Caroline!!!
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Friday, May 07, 2010. Pic from Evening Standard website, thanks). The Greens are the only party who have reason to cheer their result in the 2010 election. Caroline Lucas' team in Brighton have beaten the malodourous FPTP electoral system and made history by putting the first Green MP into the Mugger of Parliaments at Westminster. So we have a hung Parliament, though not as well hung (what happened to the LibDem vote? One of the ...
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Mabinogogiblog: Challenge to CPS decision on Greville Janner's trial for alleged child abuse
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Challenge to CPS decision on Greville Janner's trial for alleged child abuse. All Parliamentary candidates have the same access to Government offices as MPs. I have used this privilege to write about the failure of the CPS to bring Greville Janner to court. So, Tim, John, John and Ernie - are you with me on this? Use the comments slot below. See my Wiki on child abuse by VIPs here. 19 April, 2015. I have r...
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Caroline Lucas – a platform too far? | Greens Against the Boycott of Israel
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Greens Against the Boycott of Israel. Members of the Green Party of England and Wales building links not un-Green boycotts. May 9, 2008. Caroline Lucas – a platform too far? At 9:55 pm by Mira Vogel. UPDATE (28th May 2008): It appears that on that day, Caroline did not only share a platform with Hamas rep in the UK, but also with Hamas leader in Gaza. A video message from Ismail Haniyeh was shown to the public. Here is a quote. From Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar “. To hold onto Israel, and calls for Jews to...
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Mabinogogiblog: How to resolve the Calais problem?
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Thursday, July 30, 2015. How to resolve the Calais problem? The shambles in Calais cannot continue. First, we need to orient ourselves. There is a useful picture presented on the HuffPost here. And in the Mirror here. Briefly, there are some 60 million displaced people in the world. That's 1% of us. The main causes are war, conflict, oppression, and (increasingly) the inability of the environment to support them. -. This is the r...
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Mabinogogiblog: Separatism is behind nearly half of current wars. The UN can prevent this.
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Friday, August 30, 2013. Separatism is behind nearly half of current wars. The UN can prevent this. Following from Parliament's welcome decision not to participate in the rubblisation of Syria, I have been looking at ongoing wars that are taking place on our fine planet. Back in 2008 I did a post entitled 1 in 3 current wars are about separatism. Religion, chiefly Islam 13. War on Drugs 2. Prevention is better than cure. Clau...
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Mabinogogiblog: Hiroshima then, deterrence now
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Thursday, August 06, 2015. Hiroshima then, deterrence now. 70 years ago, a city was annihilated as a demonstration by the USA of what it could do to Soviet Russia. Now we still have nuclear weapons - 16,000 of the damned things, all part of a system of deterrence that is believed to create peace through a balance of terror. So let us look at the deterrence system. Can the system fail? Moreover, the interplay of decision makers is...
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Mabinogogiblog: Dictators - the main cause of war in 2015
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Dictators - the main cause of war in 2015. There has been a slight shift in the causes of current wars. Last time I looked, in August 2015, separatism (one regional group wishing to be an autonomous state) was the cause of 50% of then-current wars. Before that, in 2008, separatism was a major cause in 30%,. Now, July '15, separatism has slipped back to 30%. Syria (dictator in place, resisting overthrow).
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Mabinogogiblog: How can we get newspapers to be more truthful?
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Monday, August 03, 2015. How can we get newspapers to be more truthful? It is clear to everyone except influential members of the Conservative and Labour parties that Britain's democracy is in a desperate state. Everyone with a functioning brain can see that our electoral system is shot. But there is more than the electoral system to be fixed. In 2013 Ipsos Mori did a study on misperception. Here is a summary:. Muslim % 25 5.
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Mabinogogiblog: The Promise of Hiroshima
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Thursday, August 06, 2015. The Promise of Hiroshima. It was all so beautiful. Mathematics could dissect reality itself,. Complex, and finely balanced,. A logan rock that moves with just a touch,. And through these mysteries. We came to understand. The energy constrained within a grain of sand. One plane, one flash. One whole town gone to dust. Nothing except a few skeletal lines. Some shadow where a man had been. This post is a l...
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Mabinogogiblog: Charlie Hebdo: Call for a widespread Fatwa Against Terrorism
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Richard Lawson. On how not to saw off the branch which you are standing on. Monday, January 12, 2015. Charlie Hebdo: Call for a widespread Fatwa Against Terrorism. We must hope that the Charlie Hebdo murders will be some kind of watershed in relations between Islam and the West, that good will come out of the tragedy. But how can change come about? The Muslim Council of Britain. The ultimate denigration of our faith comes from these murderers who have unjustifiably taken life". This is not a new idea....