One of the manifesto policies of the Greens at the last election was that they would lower the voting age to 16. Now that we have a potential EU Referendum coming up they have asked for support in a vote to get the vote extended to 16 and 17 year old for this particular matter.
EU Referendum?
I got an email the other day from the Green Party – I’m a registered supporter but not a member – about lowering the voting age for the possible EU Membership Referendum in the next couple of years to 16. I will be writing about that another day, but for today I want to write about the EU.
From one anniversary to the next
Yesterday it was the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. In Lincoln a giant effigy of King John was carried to the castle. Today, however there is another anniversary.
Continue reading “From one anniversary to the next”
Magna Carta
800 years ago today at Runnymede King John and his barons made an agreement that is the foundation of our current freedoms.
Continue reading “Magna Carta”
Words for Sale: A Critical Political Economy of Paganism
by Jonathan Woolley
Image created by Tax Credits, sourced from Flickr, used under a Creative Commons Licence.
A couple of days ago, Rhyd wrote an excellent essay on the Faustian pact of Google Analytics, and other similar software packages. Sure, you get all sorts of interesting information out, he explained, but at its heart, this seemingly benign, innovative means of objectively assessing impact and reach – the sort of thing authors endlessly agonise about, particularly in such a crowded forum as the internet – allows Google and other organisations to collect detailed information about your readership; for sale to the highest bidder. Like so much in our society, when you reflect upon the ways in which influence, money, management and labour intersect within SEO, social media, and the like – a form of reflection called “political economy” – an unsavory commercial logic emerges from the undergrowth.
Sadly…
View original post 2,426 more words
Coming up this week
Busy week ahead, I have a few blog posts I’m going to write and line up when I get the laptop to and internet connection during the week.
There will be a few post concerning various landmark anniversaries this week. And then there will be other stuff that has been floating around in my brain.
13th June 2015
I’m really, really tired, and it’s not even half seven yet. I went for a walk this morning to the local Methodist chapel; there was a vintage and craft fair on.Continue reading “13th June 2015”
The HAES® files: From Dieter to Freedom
I agree with the writer of this post about WW being abusive; you’re never good enough, never doing it right and every six months the plans change just to keep you buying their products. I tried WW and Slimming World repeatedly. WW was definitely the worst, always noting every little bit of food, obsessing constantly about food, feeling a useless failure after the first few weeks of losing a few pounds because I’d started putting weight back on. It was horrible. And expensive; I was either unemployed or on a low income a lot of the time and trying to find the money every week for meetings and then their products was difficult, and the reason I stopped going. Why pay for someone else to make me miserable, I can do that on my own.
Thanks to Lara Frater at the HAES blog for writing this blog post.
Review: ‘Buddhism for Dudes’ by Gerry Stribling
Buddhism for Dudes: A Jarhead’s Field Guide to Mindfulness
Gerry Stribling
Published by: Wisdom Publications
Edition: Paperback
ISBN: 9781614292296
Price: $14.95 (USD)
Publication Date: 25th August, 2015
Continue reading “Review: ‘Buddhism for Dudes’ by Gerry Stribling”
Everything Is Better With Dragons 