Daily Globe British Values, Global Perspective
What are the deadliest wars of the 21st Century? 1 The Syrian Civil War 2011-Present 535,000 deaths 2 War on Terror (including 2001-Present 493,500 deaths Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan) 3 War in Darfur 2003-Present 286,827 deaths 4 Yemeni Civil War 2014–Present 233,000+ deaths 5 Mexican Drug War 2006-Present 106,800 deaths By contrast the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1948 has killed only 116,000 …
Read More »Carnage in Manchester, it must be our last
1977, aged 7, I experienced my first ‘bomb’ in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Us kids had our hospital beds wheeled into the corridor as our room windows came through, from a car-bomb in the carpark. It became almost a weekly thing for a while (I was there for a …
Read More »Are you scared yet?
I find the coverage of United States politics in Britain very strange. Why are we all so interested? Most Americans are fairly clueless about the details of British politics. They might know who the Prime Minister is, but beyond that it all gets rather hazy. Then again I remember meeting …
Read More »Is Europe blindly stumbling into a migration-led, Islamic extremism apocalypse?
We hear many claims (mainly by those who would appear to support the rabid mass migration of 2015 and the inevitable quadrupling of these mind-blowing numbers during 2016) asserting that Islamic ‘terrorism’ and ‘radicalisation’ is a phenomenon brought upon ourselves by the ‘warmongering’ actions of the West in our recent …
Read More »Peter Tatchell makes an excellent point re Sharia and Human Rights
I cannot profess to agreeing with Peter Tatchell on everything, in fact our views on Palestine are probably poles apart, but I have to give credit where it is due. Peter, at a recent debate “Is Islam the cause or solution to extremism?“, piles into what I can only call …
Read More »Sgt Blackman, political scapegoat, has suffered enough. It’s time to let him out.
The UK government need to accept the time has come, any political manoeuvring on the subject has moved on, there is nothing to gain by keeping Sgt Blackman in jail any longer. Let’s not get stuck on the rhetoric of “he killed a prisoner” as some sort of moral justification …
Read More »Thoughts on ISIS, Islamic Culture and liberalism.
With the recent evil ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, Lebanon, Kenya, Egypt and other places, people are often asking “why would anyone do such a thing?” It’s a fair question but I think the gap between one who is driven to a death cult like ISIS and moderate Muslims and …
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