Hopeless?

Have you given up hope?  You could be forgiven if you had.  This reckless nationalist rabble run from one folly to the next.  Today we have our first minister promising to even out educational attainment by further dumbing down to the point where every child will be the same.  The talented and the diligent must not achieve more than the others.  There is as ever an issue.  The talented and the diligent are the folk who make our country work. Soon they will be in even shorter supply .  And soon the country will not work and we will go down the pan.  It will be then that we can take our revenge on these ludicrous nationalists .  Unless -  we throw them out .  Let's do it!

Do not give Money to Rich People - they have enough already.

You may have read how 1% of the population now have the vast majority of the money. What can we do about this? Don't give them any more! How do we do that? With some difficulty. However - there are some pointers. To begin - in any transaction in which money changes hands there is a winner and a loser - contrary to received wisdom. Most of the time the winner is the person who gets the money. Most goods and most services are not worth what we pay for them. Much food and drink is junk, much clothing is poorly made, poorly designed and largely worthless, more walking and fewer bus journeys are healthier, TV and Movies have little relevance to real life etc etc.
So - first action - do not buy anything you do not actually need. (In the 1960s in USA civil rights groups encouraged supporters to try to buy only food and medicine in an attempt to influence the largely white owned business community to change its attitudes).
Secondly - choose where you shop. Buy from smaller businesses rather than large conglomerates. The family who own Asda are among the richest in the world!

It's been a while

There has not been a post for a while. This is unsurprising. Wisdom is in short supply! When any endeavour  struggles it sometimes helps to go back to basics. What are basics? In science the basics are maths (of course) and physics. Central  to physics are the laws of thermodynamics and the issue of entropy the details of which are well beyond me. The core issue is that we need order in our lives and there are many more ways of things being disordered than well ordered. To get things  the way we would like them we need to do work.  This is true in physics and equally in life. To get things done we need to do useful work. We need to study, develop our skills and do the right things. Modern society  seems to have stepped  back from this and politicians  have responded by promising the voters something for nothing. Read the physics books. It does not work. Elect people who will help us do this and reject those promising magical solutions or success by stealing from others.