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I was quite amused to read an article today about two people who are “camping” outside the Apple Store in London, a week ahead of the sale date of the iPad 3 tablet just so that they could be the “First to get one…” Whilst rather sad and a bit pathetic too it is also quite thought provoking in an entirely different way when thinking about the wider world economy.

The iPad itself is a device for “consuming” material with limited data input potential rather than the “creative space” fully fledged computers offer. However, this probably more properly reflects the limited use that the vast majority of people have in terms of computing power. However, I suspect that whether we look at smart phones, iPads, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest, what we are really seeing is the start of a major decline in the current business model they all represent…

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My Father used to joke: “When I was 16, I thought that my Father was the most ignorant man on the planet. By the time I was 20, I found it amazing just how much he had learned in 4 years.” We all as teenagers think we know it all, that we have “discovered sex” and our parents could not possibly understand anything about it…

It is in this sense that the furore about “Gay Marriage” totally mirrors the idiocy of politicians ever keen “to do something” and blind to reality and a proper appreciation of the past. Miss Featherstone says the Government has a right to change the definition of marriage and pledges to challenge those who “want to leave tradition alone”, which amounts to one of the silliest things any politician could say because, “It is not in your gift either Madam, the definition belongs to our culture, not Parliament !”

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I knew that it had to happen, it was a racing certainty once they stopped distributing the local free weekly newspaper because it became uneconomic to keep publishing it. Inevitably the day would dawn when for the first time in almost 5 years, I would have to go out and buy a newspaper and on the basis of my ‘needs’, it was obvious that only The Sunday Times would do.

As is most often the case in these things, there were several factors at work which combined to force my hand. Of course losing the ‘freebie newspaper’ was crucial but, it was most certainly exasperated by the amount of print making and framing that I had been doing of late, without the latter, I could have put off the evil day for some months I suspect.

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There was a most extraordinary article in the Press the other day which was headlined as follows:

“Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say. Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html

The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was written by two Professors who have apparently since decamped to live in Australia, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.

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Although I find the “reader’s comments” on the Telegraph these days, increasingly shrill and stupid, apart from the sheer ‘fun’ of BoJo’s Monday column, Benedict Brogan is also a wonderful “fresh breath” in the dens of the “Right Wing Nutters of the Telegraph”.

He wrote an interesting piece the other day in which he asked, “Where will the voters come from in order to get Cameron re-elected as PM ?” It is an excellent piece which you can read here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100140226/where-are-the-voters-who-will-turn-david-cameron-into-a-winner-in-2015/ But more than that, he raised a series of interesting questions too…

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Given all the current “noise” over the Governments NHS ‘Reforms’, one cannot but have a sneaking feeling that the very loud opposition from the medical people who work inside the NHS and have been given ample opportunities to present their case through the various consultation periods, has all the signs of people resisting change at any price and smacks of “their self interests” rather than anything else.

The real issue though, extends beyond the NHS and reaches into every major spending department that any government has. The critical element or the question to be answered is: “How can any government get sound and unbiased technical advice, what kind of ‘system’ could throw that advice up in a way that the public can accept as being sound and unbiased ?” In reality, the NHS Bill shines a light on this issue so, it is worth looking at…

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For one of the funniest exercises in “something that people can’t be bothered with” was an Editorial in the Independent the other day on gay marriages along the lines of “…repealing an injustice…” Frankly only some dullard from the ‘Indy’ could write such tripe, check it out for yourself: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-gay-marriage-will-lift-the-last-barrier-to-equality-7237440.html

What was laughable about it all was the complete lack of response from the readership on the subject. Whilst the ‘Indy’ never gets the volume of responses that the Telegraph does, at least on the various ‘religious topics’ that have been going the rounds recently, even the Indy managed 500 responses, on this, less than 40 so, not a burning issue then ?

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A journalist I like John Rentoul writes a regular piece for The Independent on Sunday and normally he is of a high standard but this week, whilst the execution was poor, some of the ideas and themes behind it were quite good and thought provoking. Read it for yourself here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-the-jelly-pm-may-wobble-yet-7174366.html

The essence of what John Rentoul was writing about is trying to “define” David Cameron in terms of what he stands for and in this, describes him as a jelly that is yet to set which would go down quite well with the average ‘Lefty reader’ of the Independent but I suspect, rather misses the whole point concerning the current political scene where political dogma is not welcome. In this sense and like all good politicians, David Cameron is a man of his times.

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It has always been a major problem on the political Left for them to grasp the idea that one should aim to “level up” instead of “levelling down”. You do not remove discrimination and enhance ideas of equality by impinging on other people’s freedoms. This was one the consequences of the legislation that in effect outlawed Catholic (or any other faith), Adoption Agencies that on the grounds of conscience and religious conviction, could not place children with Gay Couples.

This was a very poor piece of legislation which arose from “happy clappy liberals” combined with politicians seeking any vote they can but, in trying to “normalise” homosexuality they in the process have ignored the fundamentals of liberty including for Gay people themselves.

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Baroness Warsi who is leading a Government delegation to the Vatican to commemorate the 30^th anniversary of the re-establishment of full diplomatic representation between the UK and the Vatican, wrote an interesting article for the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9080441/We-stand-side-by-side-with-the-Pope-in-fighting-for-faith.html

What she had to say was very sensible in that she was saying that Christianity should stand up proudly rather than be swamped by militant secularists. Her particularly good comment was: “…you cannot and should not extract these Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes.”

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