Fake news is a term that we have heard an awful lot of. But is it really all ‘fake’? Can we really trust journalists because they appear to be credible or represent a media outlet that appears legitimate from the outside? Are influencers and public personalities credible just because they have a platform with a … Continue reading Learn to see or hear the news and understand how much of it is opinion or distanced from facts
Tag: Influence
Power, position, wealth & influence are no insulation against complete stupidity
Anyone can be as clever or as intelligent as they like or as the world considers them to be. But if they don’t care about anyone but themselves at the end of the day, the outcome of their actions will always end with consequences that we might expect if we were to knowingly place the … Continue reading Power, position, wealth & influence are no insulation against complete stupidity
Stop the talk, stop the problem
Many of the societal problems that we have today exist in the way or at the level that they do, because of the way that the media focuses on sensationalism (bad news for somebody else). The whole model functions on a strange kind of vicarious state of being. One that provides people with an instant … Continue reading Stop the talk, stop the problem
The role of the Media in our new world
Whilst many question the validity of the mainstream media today, very few really question or analyse what our mainstream news mediums really do and how they actually work. As with the case with money, or the new unit(s) of exchange as we go forward, the great correction will define that media sources with influence must … Continue reading The role of the Media in our new world
Common Sense and the lightest touch of Law and Regulation
Whilst I have made a big thing of the need to both regulate and monitor the ethical conduct of any industry or service that provides any goods, services or has an influence on the factors which are essential to a Basic Living Standard, we must in general terms step back from the culture of having … Continue reading Common Sense and the lightest touch of Law and Regulation
The role and voice of Young People in Politics & Government
The often-unrecognised strand and dynamic of top-down politics is the reality that the people we currently have at the top are usually at the end of their career (or beyond), and that those even in the lower stages of this perverse hierarchy are themselves in or approaching middle age. Yes, there are exceptions as there … Continue reading The role and voice of Young People in Politics & Government
Your influence is yours to give to Politicians and is for Politicians to answer to
We cannot all be politicians. In fact, very few of us would even want to be politicians. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be accessible to us, especially when they are making the decision on our behalf that affect us all. We all have an equal stake in society. In our communities. In our Country … Continue reading Your influence is yours to give to Politicians and is for Politicians to answer to
Political decisions should always be taken at the level where they will achieve the most good
Contrary to what our political masters would like us all to believe, we do not have people leading us from London who have a better understanding of how life works, or how we see, experience and feel about the lives that we live. Yet the way that government works and the way that the public … Continue reading Political decisions should always be taken at the level where they will achieve the most good
The ongoing power-grab from useless and controlling UK Politicians
We have been conditioned historically to give what is an assumed deference to anyone who we consider to be in a position of influence or power. No matter how ridiculous the people we find ourselves showing that deference to may seem be, the fact that they are in those positions of influence or power, somehow … Continue reading The ongoing power-grab from useless and controlling UK Politicians
Essential Services to the Public
As discussed earlier, public services have become a political football and plaything for politicians, public sector workers and those with a financial interest in them alike. Man cannot have two masters, just as you cannot put two saddles on the same horse. Services that are provided for the benefit of the public must have the … Continue reading Essential Services to the Public
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