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Take care that the journalist is not making you the 'unwelcome news', instead of you just having your say. It might not be most people, but many of us might feel excited at the prospect of being 'interviewed' by a journalist, with the reward of prominence being given to our humble or grandiose views on the radio or TV. Many of us might think that journalists are professional and thoughtful people who would not stoop to exploit and dishonestly air our views in a way which could prove damaging to us. The phrase which is often used here, is that they took what we said out of context. Context, of course, means that we should not excise  part of a sentence or a section of what is said, and quote it as part of a statement we are making, in such a way that it could have a different meaning from that which it was intended to have, in the generality of the, let us say, the full interview. In years gone by, I became acquainted with a lecturer by name was Ian Phillips,

The Battle for Aleppo is not a battle which the Syrian Government and its Russian, Iranian and Lebanese allies can afford to lose to the opposing opposition forces and their external allies; probably any more than the Russians could have afforded to lose the Battle of Leningrad to the German forces in the Second World War Based on what we can see from some of the media pictures of the Syrian City of Aleppo, a City which was probably the jewel in Syria's crown, Aleppo is a bloodied city, whose heart is being torn out of her, and which is still, largely heartless, trying to cling onto life, survival. The City has been a battle ground for several years now, probably bearing some semblance to Russia's Leningrad in the Second World War. It has been put to the torch, first by the rebels who stormed it back in 2011/2012, and then by the Syrian Government forces, in their resistance, as they gradually gave ground to the rebels and the Extreme Islamic forces o

Several weeks ago I wrote a post criticising a journalist who criticised the British TV channel, Channel 4, for using a Muslim journalist, dressed in a headscarf to present a news programme dealing with the Nice massacre, by a mad and evil man who apparently depicted himself as being a Muslim. Today, I am writing a post questioning the prudence of this same Muslim journalist, Ramona Aly, in an article she wrote in The Guardian newspaper, criticising the a French local authority for banning the wearing of 'burkinis' on its beaches. Ramona has, essentially, argued that, there are more important things which could exercise the intellect of the French, than to be bothered with deliberations as to whether or not to ban the burkini from their beaches. The burkini, it should be said, is a bathing garment, worn by orthodox Muslims who have an obsession with covering up the human body, in such a way as to make it devoid of all its individuality and beauty. Yes, it

With the life of  the annual plants and flowers, like the Summer, being rather short, it behoves us to maximise our exposure and pleasure from them while they last. Which is why I find it so hard to resist taking videos of both, so that they can be enjoyed as and whenever. And so, not only should we be appreciative of the pleasures of the natural world, but also of the ingenuity of humans in creating devices which enable us to prolong such pleasures. Take a look at this video and see what impact it might have on your senses.

Positive comments or negative comments positively delivered can  motivate people to make positive changes; whereas negative comments, negatively given, can lead to a worsening situation. And how often do we hear the refrain; ‘the National Health Service is falling apart.’ The standard of service is falling; the waiting list is getting longer; the Service is not coping? Yes, to a lesser and greater extent, depending on which hospital or health facility, and the quality, expertise and professionalism of the practitioners under whose care you or your relatives or friends happen be accessing, the criticisms, individually or collectively, can be valid pronouncements. But there is another side to this,; the positive side, which involves thousands of NHS staff doing their best each day, to provide competent services for their patients, and having successes in doing so. Over recent weeks I have come across patients who have had the need to access three se

In whose interest do United States and Britain want to destroy Yemen and take it  back to the Stone Age. For the good of the Yemenis? The Saudi Regime has been bombing Yemen and her people for over one year now. Powerful as the Saudis are in the Middle East, they are not able to undertake their destructive mission without the active support and collaboration of the United States, Britain and the predominantly Sunni states in both the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, which have allied themselves with the Saudis. This unholy alliance of nominally Christian and radical Islamic states, have decided that Yemen and her people are expendable and ought to be sacrificed in the tripartite struggles for dominance in the Middle East. Which is taking place between Iran, and Saudi Arabia and the countries of the west, primarily Britain and the United States, which are struggling to maintain their influence in a still changing region of the world. It is this same struggle which has

No easy option; when either route means some pain for both protagonist. So, when you love, respect, admire and look up to someone, you desire most of all that they will continue to conduct themselves in a way which maintains your feeling of pride and admiration for them. You desire that they will act magnanimously in, no, not everything they do, as that would not be realistic or practicable, but in many of the things they do, especially those that matters so much to you.. And, unexpectedly, they say or does something which causes you wonder about them. Are they really the person you have come to know and have known? Are there aspects or personas of them which you do not know, and, probably, would not want to know, because it would make you so sad? Make you so disappointed as to not only come close to losing your faith in humanity, but in them? And so you continue to wonder, why is their position so diametrically opposed to yours? Why does it seem so cu