Some thoughts

A good summary of the past 12 months in popular culture. I didn't watch much western media due to the constant woke nonsense. Hopefully, as the Drinker suggests, we are finally turning a corner.    

A nice summary of Why Singapore Has the World's Best Healthcare I'd love to see a similar system introduced in the UK  

 A cool comparison I stumbled across today: ISLANDS in Perspective: 3D Comparison   I particularly found the relative sizes of Ireland and Hokkaido, and GB and Honshu, interesting.  

Daisy Cousens on top form: Personally, I'd wouldn't say it was just this, but it was a big factor, along with feminism this caused the demographic collapse but these were also due to the decline in the west's self-confidence and moral underpinnings, which in tern were  destroyed by the two world wars.   

A bit old, but I just stumbled across today. Some good points (as usual) by Murray.   I'm looking forward to the fifth anniversary of the referendum next month already!

A good critique of the many problems with Marx and Engel's work:  

 The Drinker comments on the Oscars, and the problems with Hollywood in general: As this tweet shows ( source ), this year has seen viewing figure fall off a cliff: Ouch. As we keep hearing: go woke, go broke.

 An interesting video of the future of England and the Union: I agree today should be a public holiday, and while I would be sad to see Scotland and NI go if they choose to do so good luck to them. The best way to counter this separatism IMO is to devolve powers lower down to county councils and get rid of the Welsh assembly (I'd vote for the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party  next month if I could), though doing the same for the NI Assembly and Scottish Parliament would be a lot trickier.  A future Kingdom of England and Wales (KEW) could happen in the next 50 years or so. 

Following on from my post yesterday , this segment from the Lotus Eaters explains a lot of what has gone wrong, specifically the messages given to young people that have to lead to them not settling down and starting a family. Like Carl, I also sympathize with and can relate to her. However, while I also worked in London I did the 'sensible thing and bought a house in a town an hour away by train and commuted in daily. I, therefore, didn't take part in the London nightlife scene but would usually socialize with friends in my hometown at weekends. Despite this, I still found it hard to meet someone to settle down with and start a family, even though I already had my own home and had thought about my long-term plans in a way Carl suggest Katie (and his younger self) hadn't. This lead in part to me deciding to roll the dice and move to Asia, hoping that I might meet someone there to marry. My failure to do so over 5 years again caused me to reconsider this plan and come back t...

I recently discovered the  YouTube channel  of Daisy Cousens, an Australian lady whose content I'd definitely recommend. This two-part video is a speculative, worst-case scenario prediction based on current trends that are scarily plausible. Part 2: Well worth watching.  

 Some of the biggest changes in the years since I last had attempted regular blogging has been the rise of videobloggers (or vloggers) particularly on  Youtube. I'm not tempted to have a go for various reasons, plus I prefer reading to listening/watching others partly because I am a fast reader and can get through more content in the time it takes to watch a video. Nonetheless, I do have a number of channels I subscribe to, here are my favorites: The Critical Drinker - taking a sarcastic look at both recent and classic media, the Drinker is a fierce critic of identity politics and agenda-pushing in movies and TV. He is also a novelist so explains well how writers should craft characters and stories, in contrast to the messes they tend to make these days. His Game of Thrones season 8 reviews were more entertaining than the actual show, see his finale review for a good example of his content. Voxis Productions - AKA Professor Tosspot's channel, a foul-mouthed geriatric puppet th...