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With respect to business, it is often said that you have to take risks in order to acquire success - or, indeed, ruin, if you fail to go about your risk taking prudently. And so, on the stock exchanges or market, you have this interplay between the 'cautious bears', and the, at least, at times, 'impetuous bulls.'  The 'cautious bears', I assume, can dampen down economic activities and check the excesses of the 'impetuous bulls, through being cautious or overly cautious, and stop buying, or drastically reducing the amount they buy.   Similarly, you can have the 'impetuous bulls' taking big gambles and buying in great quantities, even when the global or specific socio-economic indicators appear to give no support for such expression of 'market confidence', and thereby 'stimulate' economic activities on, essentially, a false premise, but still bring about a situation in which 'facts are created on the ground', after, i

A garden, though comprising different plants and colours, is manifestly more beautiful and pleasing to the eye for being so. This morning I saw Andrew Marr interviewing Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Business, Investment and Skills, on BBC's TV 'The Andrew Marr Show.' Mr Marr asked Mr Javid to answer 'yes', or 'no', as to whether when he told the British electorate about his opinion that Britain leaving the European Union, the country would suffer some very damaging consequences. It was quite clear that Mr Javid needed to be honest, and said, to Mr Marr, 'yes', I really did believe that those consequences would occur, if Britain voted to leave the EU, and, yes, I still believe that  they could/or will, unless, the British Government - as soon as the Conservative Party finishes the internal blood-letting and decide, not only who is to become the new Prime Minister and leader of the their Party, but also who is to be part of the 'r

Stafford Prison, UK In 2012, the British Government abolished a piece of criminal legislation which was introduced by a Labour Government in 2003, but not before this law, which was an affront to justice, resulted in thousands of British citizens being given 'indeterminate sentences', which have meant that they can remain incarcerated for the rest of their natural lives, as it were. Unless the government take steps to satisfactorily redress this appalling situation. The year 2003, was of course the year in which Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare were murdered a s result of gang violence in Birmingham, which sent a chill down the local community, as well as nationally, with the politicians, as usual, seeking to cash in on and foment public disquiet. One can imagine that this wicked piece of legislation was the result of the government of the day 'being tough on crime', so tough that it was willing to discard the principles of proportionality and the long-term

The EU should not just stand and wait for the next country to jump ship; it should implement the desired reforms. For many people, both in and outside of the British isles, Britain is an outcast and, at least, a bit of a pariah. There is a sense amongst many that Britain has betrayed the aura of 'greatness' which they believed it had, and had become fascinated with. Britain leaving the European Union and precipitating a sense of national and international chaos and instability, is not what they had come to expect of this considered preeminent of nations; a model of nationhood which many countries aspire toward. And, there is now a danger of the international community 'lumping all of the British people together' and apply collective punishment to them. Ignoring the fact that the nation was divided nearly 50/50 per cent between those British people who wanted to leave the European Union, and those who wanted to stay. Indeed the nearly 50 per cent of Briton

Consider this: It would appear that millions of the British electorate - but definitely not the 16.14 millions who voted to remain - probably  with minds which had become clouded by their immediate fears and precarious living, have given way to their emotions and voted for Britain to leave the European Union. They had and probably are still hoping that this decision will lead Britain to utopia, but they cannot be sure of that. Indeed, following the now on-going adverse reaction and increased uncertainties after the decision to leave, the more prudent and hindsighted ones amongst the Brexiters might well be wondering - 'have we done the right thing?' or, 'what have we done.? It is, however, too late for hindsight. Arguably, the voters who voted to leave, did not sufficiently bothered themselves with the technicalities and the resources and renegotiation which would be needed to give effect to their wanting to leave the EU; like Judges who pass their judgement

This video is of a heron which  frequents this particular canal.  I am not sure if it is the same one which I previously encountered, as this one has some dark patches below its right shoulder, and, for whatever reason, it was less anxious and more tolerant of my presence. I have accompanied the video with a rather raspy and upbeat tune. Play it, if you will, and allow it to bring you some enjoyment. Hi, there, Said the Man to the Passing Heron!  Talking to Me, the Heron Seemed to Say!

The emotions of the elite are not different from those of the masses, nor are those of the rich different from those of the poor. As the perennial dictum goes, one person bleeds much the same as another, if you cut him/or her. What might be different is in the passion with which the poor and the rich, the elite and masses display their emotions, and the amount of time they might allocate to the different emotions. This raises the question as to whether their is any fundamental difference in their respective value to humanity, or, for the theists, their human-inspired 'decrees' of their gods? At an individual level, their is nothing to suggest that there is any difference between the life of a member of the masses and the life of a member of the elite, or that of the rich and of the poor. However, when looked at on a societal basis - which is probably the only context in which the lives of humans can be fully lived - there is some objective facts which would suggest tha