Is eugenics present in modern day government social and welfare policies?
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Persecuting the Disabled: History Repeats Itself
Someone who had read my novel, Eugenica, contacted me to say that what is happening in Britain today in regard to the government's attacks against disabled people reminded them of that particular book. I found this observation both disappointing and reassuring by equal measure. I was disappointed because Eugenica was written with the intent of … Continue reading Persecuting the Disabled: History Repeats Itself
Hate always wins
The cause does not seem to matter, be it sport or politics, the fact is that so many people fall so easily to hate; that is why it persists
Hate always wins
The cause does not seem to matter, be it sport or politics, the fact is that so many people fall so easily to hate; that is why it persists
My Life Now
The clock is ticking, but I choose not to hear it. I live in the moment where only being is important.
New Year, New Life, New Everything
I am writing this far from home, which is a new experience for me. In fact, my life seems to be full of new experiences and it is making me very happy
Stupid is as Stupid Facebook Does
There has been a lot of speculation over many years as to how the ancient Egyptians completed these colossal structures and some wit decided to answer the question with a clearly invented picture that was just as clearly intended to be a joke, but it was one that Facebook did not get
The York Museum Goes to War against the Anglo-Saxons
I have mentioned previously that York has a fixation with the Vikings and that around the city there is very little reference to, or even acknowledgement of, the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, well, in the York museum it gets even worse; there appears to be a conscious effort to erase the entire Saxon period out of York's history.
Visiting the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum, September 2023
I found it profoundly disappointing that there is no provision for disabled people to come to Auschwitz and pay their respects to the victims who died there
Why Does Popular Media Falsify History?
The wilful misrepresentation of that history, either to fulfil a current social-political agenda, or simply to make a media production more appealing to a mixed race audience for commercial reasons, is damaging
Peter C Whitaker 