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The Top Three Worst Questions I’ve Been Asked as a Parent

There’s something about being pregnant, or having small children, that causes people to think its perfectly acceptable to ask inappropriate questions. Here’s the worst three I’ve been asked in my time; Wow you’re so big, is it twins? With both of my pregnancies I got asked this a lot, and it was always very unwelcome. Now when I look back I probably overreacted a bit but I was so fed
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Covid 19 – Where do we Stand?

DISCLAIMER: The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in the following article belong solely to the author and not necessarily to the members of the Dangerous Globe and/or Creating Socialism.  In today’s Guardian I spotted a particularly nasty piece from the US on the subject of Covid 19 management:- The Republican governor of Alabama has said it is “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks” for rising cases of Covid-19, amid
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Faked Fake News

INTRODUCTION We started the Dangerous Globe in 2016 in a world still blissfully still unaware of the delights of “Fake News” or Kelly Anne Conway’s ludicrous ‘Alternative Truths’. We were just as unaware of Brexit, Novichok, Trump, Skripal, Covid, Johnson or even Kelly Anne Conway herself come to that. 2 Ex-Pat Brits, based in the Netherlands, with a bit of computing power, a smattering of European Languages, and a strong
Are we finally on the eve of destruction?
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Are we finally on the ‘eve of destruction’?

In this week’s Socialist Hour I started by using a song by Barry McGuire called the “Eve of Destruction” to discuss the current political situation. It probably reveals something of my current state of mind because if the past 16 months have taught us anything at all it is that the political classes almost without exception across the globe have failed miserably when it comes to confronting a crisis. When
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The Future of U.S. Politics: Progressivism, Trumpism and the Great Divide

It's safe to say the passing of the 1.4 trillion dollar stimulus package was a positive step for the left-wing Progressive community in the United States when it was slipped through the US Senate in March. Statistics showed at the time it potentially could've been the most important piece of legislation designed to improve the lives of a the lower middle class since the New Deal domestic programs by Franklin
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How to support the Jewish community without being anti-Palestinian

And my experiences of the weaponization of antisemitism in Jersey. 2020 has continued our clear descent as an international community into neo-fascism. There are many excellent articles, that I could not hope to improve upon that have been written on this subject, so I will not cover this issue, but will recommend a brilliant book I read last year by Jason Stanley — ‘How Fascism Works — The Politics of Them
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US/UK Homelessness the Scourge the Government Doesn’t Want You to See

It was a quarter passed 9 am, my wife and I had just exited the PATH train from our home in downtown Jersey City, to Penn Station in Newark, NJ. Upon exiting the West end of the transit hub I bared witness to a fifty yard line of dusty blankets, shopping carts, sleeping bags, the occasional tent and lastly the wrinkled faces glazed with sweating in the extreme July heat.
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Mind Plague 3: The wall of truth

In the early decades of the 21st Century humanity faces a pandemic of lies, jeopardising both the fabric of our society and the viability of the biological world. This series of ‘short conversations’ by Luke Andreski discusses the weapons we need if we are to overcome our disinformation pandemic – weapons initially of resistance and then of attack.   A trip to Mars We were talking about survival. Individual survival
Democracy extinct
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Democracy Under Attack

How much do you value democracy? Seems an odd question to ask, doesn’t it? So ingrained is the idea that we live in a parliamentary democracy that, rather like the NHS, it will not be until it is gone that people will realise just how much they valued it. I don’t want to be alarmist but the very fabric of our right to call ourselves a democracy is under a