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Archive for January, 2008

There are many people I know and have known who seem totally besotted with mobile phones and what this model does and what is fashionable and currently “the model to have”, I must confess to not being one of them. I have had the same mobile phone number since January 1999 and still don’t know it off by heart, my logic being that whilst you will know your home land line number because of phoning home, you are hardly going to phone your own mobile are you ? Read the rest of this entry »

As an individual, I cannot and do not know all the answers to the concept of a new form of national service, as ever the devil lies in the detail. A good example being that if it is military service, it must surely sit outside of any “Human Rights Act”, if service is legally enforceable Read the rest of this entry »

I am not one to advocate the reintroduction of National Service in the form it was back in the 1950′s but I do wonder whether a different type of “conscription” might be a good idea for society at large. Whilst ‘military’ in the sense of being a “conscription” and a legally enforceable duty to serve, under tight discipline, the majority Read the rest of this entry »

The future for the UK in military terms probably lies with the “Anglo Sphere” of English speaking countries with British roots, where political values are held in common and therefore joint understanding and positive action more likely to happen. Read the rest of this entry »