Law, Calculations and Power
It was clear again yesterday evening so I went out to check just before ten. There in the western sky was the crescent moon (crescent getting wider every day), a long gap then the pinprick of Jupiter and bright Venus all in line. So if you missed the conjunction at the weekend, it's still worth looking, Dear Reader.
Meanwhile Michael Gove, new Lord Chancellor and secretary for justice, has stated what many have suspected for years - that there is in fact one law for the rich and another for the poor. He said the best legal provision is the preserve of the wealthy, while victims of crime are "badly" let down. Whether or not he will be attempting to do something about this rather depends. THE motto of the present government is CUTS (which usually affect the poorer, see yesterday's entry.) You cannot reform a system efficiently, and there is room for reform, if your primary aim is to make cuts.
Furthermore Mr Gove's responsibilities also include scrapping the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights. Probably not a Good Thing at all, but we shall see.
I think the school exam season may be coming to a close, if it hasn't already. 'A' Levels and GCSEs are over - bar the waiting for results. There has been the usual crop of complaints about questions, various misprinted exam papers being allowed through because correcting them would take too long or cost too much (cuts again) and screeds on the stresses felt by examinees.
Well, ok, exams are a bit stressful, but they should try some of the exams we had to take back in the (Iron Age) day. Particularly the Maths exams when all the help allowed was a set of four figure log tables or a slide rule. H, who once took a university exam using a slide rule, reckons that you have to more or less work out the calculations in your head first when using the slide rule to make sure you pick the correct answer. I only know about using log tables and making sure you look up the correct figures.
Children today have it easy. They can use calculators. Mind you, you still have to read the maths exam questions very carefully to work out quite what it is you are being asked to calculate. That, I found, was always the hard part. The actual calculations were a lot easier, particularly if you have a calculator - though that's only going to be as accurate as the data inputting!
And Finally - the government has issued a permit to Cuadrilla to frack in Lancashire. You know, the same place where, when they did it before, there was an earthquake. So they stopped. You are probably fed up, or even Fed Up, with me banging on about it but, we don't need to extract more gas and oil. We need to seriously invest in 'alternative' power sources. Preferably in 'renewable' power sources and Green energy - wind, tidal, hydro, rather than nuclear, which has it's own problems.
So there we are. Three things the Government need to get sorted
Y'all have a good day now!
Meanwhile Michael Gove, new Lord Chancellor and secretary for justice, has stated what many have suspected for years - that there is in fact one law for the rich and another for the poor. He said the best legal provision is the preserve of the wealthy, while victims of crime are "badly" let down. Whether or not he will be attempting to do something about this rather depends. THE motto of the present government is CUTS (which usually affect the poorer, see yesterday's entry.) You cannot reform a system efficiently, and there is room for reform, if your primary aim is to make cuts.
Furthermore Mr Gove's responsibilities also include scrapping the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights. Probably not a Good Thing at all, but we shall see.
I think the school exam season may be coming to a close, if it hasn't already. 'A' Levels and GCSEs are over - bar the waiting for results. There has been the usual crop of complaints about questions, various misprinted exam papers being allowed through because correcting them would take too long or cost too much (cuts again) and screeds on the stresses felt by examinees.
Well, ok, exams are a bit stressful, but they should try some of the exams we had to take back in the (Iron Age) day. Particularly the Maths exams when all the help allowed was a set of four figure log tables or a slide rule. H, who once took a university exam using a slide rule, reckons that you have to more or less work out the calculations in your head first when using the slide rule to make sure you pick the correct answer. I only know about using log tables and making sure you look up the correct figures.
Children today have it easy. They can use calculators. Mind you, you still have to read the maths exam questions very carefully to work out quite what it is you are being asked to calculate. That, I found, was always the hard part. The actual calculations were a lot easier, particularly if you have a calculator - though that's only going to be as accurate as the data inputting!
And Finally - the government has issued a permit to Cuadrilla to frack in Lancashire. You know, the same place where, when they did it before, there was an earthquake. So they stopped. You are probably fed up, or even Fed Up, with me banging on about it but, we don't need to extract more gas and oil. We need to seriously invest in 'alternative' power sources. Preferably in 'renewable' power sources and Green energy - wind, tidal, hydro, rather than nuclear, which has it's own problems.
So there we are. Three things the Government need to get sorted
- Everyone is equally valuable - the amount of money a person has, or hasn't, shouldn't affect how they are treated. Much work needs to be done on this one, worldwide.
- Taxation should be based on how much you have - rich people, including Bankers, should pay more tax than poor people, they can afford to.
- It is time to seriously invest in alternative power sources, Green energy, NOT continue pursuing the last fragments of oil and gas deposits.
Y'all have a good day now!