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  I have posed the question before : Should adoptive families have a greater claim to local government resources than what other families are entitles?  Put bluntly, if an adopted child and a child living with his/her birth parents are at risk of having to be taking into the care of the local authority, or be otherwise provided with social work support.  Should the local authority be more conflicted  the predicament of the adoptive family, simply by virtue of the fact that the adopted child or young person has had a prior separation from their birth family? I would argue that it should not. The appropriate way of dealing with such a situation would be for the social workers to address themselves to assessing the needs of the relevant parties.   As those needs are currently manifesting themselves in the present, and are likely to be doing in the future.  The past status of the adopted child or young person should not have any overriding impact on the decisions which have to be made.  Al

  It would not necessarily bring an end to the conflict, since the external forces which are aiding and abetting, manipulating and empowering the Israelis and the Palestinians.   Are probably more powerful than they are. It is one of those tragic situations in which the people who are doing the real suffering, are only being partly seen and appreciated as real living humans.  Instead of as pawns, as tools and means to an end; an end which is not necessarily theirs or that which they desire or have chosen for themselves. So, it is the case that, any solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, will need to address the interests of the irresistible outside forces which have been playing probably a decisive role in keeping it going. Much has been said about the 'two state solution' for bringing the conflict to an end; at least, much has been said in the past.  However, as time progresses or passes, it is abundantly clear that having a Palestinian state and an Israeli state within th

  There are time when machine and humans can, and do work in perfect harmony.  A bit unfortunately for Team Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton, the example of the 2021 Formula 1 French Grand Prix was not one of those times.  I said a bit unfortunately, because it was only a bit, in that, although Mercedes' pit call for Hamilton to come in and make a tyre change, did not result in the anticipated advantage.   It would have given him over Max Verstappen, the Great Racer was still able to convert his P.2 Qualifying position into coming second in the race. Since the race, I have read that Toto Wolff has attributed the failure of Team Mercedes' attempt to maintain Hamilton's lead in the race, which he took in the first lap, by effecting an under-cut of Max, to a computer error.  Of course, the bottom line is likely to be that, it was down to small but significant variations in human performances.  With  say, possibly Hamilton and Mercedes' pit crew marginally under-performing in on

  A very Big Congratulations to Teams Red Bull and Mercedes and Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, for making it P'1, 2 and 3, respectively, during the Qualifying session of the 2021 Formula 1 French Grand Prix!!! From the Practising sessions of this Grand Prix, it has always looked as if the Red Bull stable is not only dominant, but also as if the winds of fortune, the odds of winning the French Grand Prix is blowing in their favour.  Lewis and his team mate, Valtteri, might have been hoping that this race would see them performing with the kind of results which would have spoken eloquently of 'normal service resuming.'  But, at least upto the Qualifying session on Saturday, only the Valtteri The Cool, was showing any evidence of this being so, or likely to be so during Qualifying and the actual race tomorrow. Sunday. And yet, there was a big turnaround for Hamilton, even if it was not big enough to give him Pole.  Indeed, considering how he had struggled

  Where it is a political idealism, its advocates intend for it to be realised in this life.  And where it is a religious idealism, its proponents are of the conviction that it will be realised in their next life.  For the realists and pragmatists among us, neither dogma, neither that of the political idealism nor that of the religious idealism can or will ever be achieved.  The value of idealism, therefore, is in what good or benefit it can achieve by guiding you along a particular path.  But it has no real, practical value, in its inability to take its proponents, its advocates and devotees, to the promise land they are offering. It is something to be made use of during ones' 'wilderness years or stage of life.'  The time when we are searching for 'who we are, who am I?'  When we are in search of our identity. Endeavouring to give significance or meaning to ourselves, To our lives.  Trying to become autonomous humans.  To create that original or unique attribute o

  Similarly, while it would be ideal to realise that kind of ideal state in other countries or places.  It is highly improbable that it could be achieved, never mind it being sustained.  We can cure a certain disease, but the probability of curing all diseases for all people and in the same time period, is night impossible.  There is probably only one situation in which we humans are able to achieve and maintain the ideal state.  But it is one which we cannot relish, since the cost of it is that we must give up on or have our lives taken from us.  Ideal as it is, it is also probably the worse purchase we will have made in our lives. In the end, as it were, 'idealism' can be seen as 'a right of passage', 'a developmental stage' through which some or most young people traverse through their lives.  And which some become fixated, whether it be to a political or religious ideology, for most or the rest of their lives.  To be continued!

  And I am reassured, I am grateful, I am thankful of the manner in which they carry out their responsibilities toward my dear mother. I am appreciative of their contribution.  I want to say, thank you for being so nice, so gently and caring towards my dear mother. Much as I think you would, might have been towards your own mother. It is they who help to meet her need for daily human interaction and help to maintain her emotional and psychological health. Yes, there are times when I have observed things that I am not happy about.  Things such as the increased number of different care-workers who sometimes do the rounds on a given day.   Or how a given meal might have been prepared, or could have been better prepared and presented, or how much time my dear mother might have been given on this and that call.  But once I reflect on and appreciate on the organizational limitations of her care-provider.  Such as appreciating that staff who are covering for her regular carers, who happen to