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Liverpool and the slave trade
Next year sees the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the notorious slave trade.
A lot has been written about Liverpool’s involvement in this vile trade.
Slavery goes right back to the days of the pyramids and the Egyptians.
However when we move forward to European involvement we must study Liverpool’s part objectively.
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To wed or not to wed?
A survey among the younger generation of women taken just recently revealed that 32% reckoned that marriage was an outmoded institution and unnecessary.
In other words who need a piece of paper to consolidate a partnership?
The state of living out of wedlock was the norm thousands of years ago because obviously marriage was not an issue.
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Integrity in business
Two items in the press in the last week raise an interesting question mark against big business in this country.
The big Banks (who else) have been taken to task by the Office of Fair Trading on the issue of insurance relating to repayment of loans which most banks insist on.
The trading standards people say the insurance cover is not worth the paper it is written on. Now the whole issue of loan protection is being investigated and about time too.
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Live and let live
Through my association with the Tenantspin community group and being based in the FACT centre in Liverpool I come into contact and work with people from all ethnic groups.
They have become some of my closest friends and I enjoy being in their company.
I make this point because of two events recently in the news which have caused a lot of controversy, hence my observations.
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The Disappearing Earth
The day North Korea detonated a nuclear device I and some compatriots attended a film show in the FACT Centre Liverpool, a showing of An Inconvenient Truth.
The show was put together by the former American Presidential candidate Al Gore and the theme was global warming.
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Democracy - Benefit or Hindrance
On 27th September a High Court judge in London made a ruling that a very determined lady, Elizabeth Pascoe aged 60 living in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool was having her human rights breached by attempts to demolish her home under a CPO. This edict affects 500 other homes and householders many of whom were on her side.
Then the wheels of what we call democracy went into motion.
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The Impossible Dream?
What a sight. The young and the old, the fit and wheelchair-users
The famous and the ordinary, the talented and the run of the mill. Gorillas, chickens and not a scowl in sight. Even a cyber man, Dr Who style waving cheerfully at humans whom he would normally reduce to cinders.
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Is Football a sport?
Football is the dirtiest, most unsporting, hypocritical, lying, cheating game on the earth.
It is played mainly by people who would not recognise the word fair if it hit them in the face.
The so called ‘Beautiful Game’ anybody using that term, journalists, soccer pundits etc should be taken before the tribunal.
The only words attributable to the game are sneaky, petulant, arrogant and a complete disregard for any rules that may exist relating to the game.
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Extreme Values
If you want to see the perfect example of the word ‘Extremes’ watch an episode of the American produced show ‘Extreme Makeover’. Then watch an episode of the British produced show ‘Big Brother’.
In ‘Extreme Makeover’ you see an example of human nature at its best from one group of people who change another group’s lives beyond the limits of imagination.
In the show you meet people of all ages who have suffered the worst that life can throw at them.
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Bravery
81 year old John Quayle and his 80 year old wife Ann, have given up two days a week to do voluntary work at the .
John is a friendly Gentle Giant, and Ann is a small bubbly lady. She serves teas, helps with filing, and spends a lot of time talking to patients and ensuring that they are as comfortable as possible.
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Crime – Causes and Cure
The country we live in at the moment seems to be in a state of lawlessness unparalleled in my lifetime, and nobody seems to have the answer to it. Yet the solutions seem to be obvious to the majority of the older population.
There was an old adage in the past that ‘the punishment should fit the crime’; this no longer seems the case when a sentence to life imprisonment carries a proviso that the offender could be free in four to five years. Even then the time is served in prisons on a par with a three star hotel with privileges like T.V., poolrooms, gyms and access to things not available to some law abiding citizens.
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