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
We Don’t Really Want to Save the World
Those of us living in the richest countries are reluctant to surrender the current way of living and those in poorer countries are desperately striving to achieve it
Fear as a tool of government
It is a curious turn of events that we now find ourselves, some 40 years after the film was released, living like replicants.
Green Football Weekend 2023
I am simply going to say that I would rather football, once a social sport, dealt with matters like poverty, which impact directly on the communities in which football clubs are based, than a subject that many connected with the game appear to know very little about
Why are we normalising poverty?
As long as charities exist so will all of the problems that they supposedly address, including poverty, which has now become normal and socially acceptable
Stupid is as Stupid Does
There is a simple honesty about the above statement. Another way of putting it is that stupidity always reveals itself, because it does. Facebook can be stupid too.
The Government’s National Strategy for Disabled People
On 2nd April, 2020, the UK Government announced a National Strategy for Disabled People; for some reason I only discovered the fact after reading a post on Facebook that commented on a survey recently initiated in support of this new policy. A quick trawl of search results reveals that no major media outlet seems to have picked up on it. The same can be said for the survey that was released 15th January, 2021.
Peter C Whitaker 