Natural Mystics

My sister Jasmine is a delightful character, full of impulsive humour and feminist rebellious ideals.  As a child she was the tom boy sister, that most her brothers despised.  The reason being, she was very close to our mother and would tell tails on us.  This might be if someone, stole a slice of cake, that my mother had baked, or who it was that broke the window with a ball whilst playing rounders, a British form of baseball.  Has a child she would bath both myself and my sister in cold water.  three years is much when you are five.  She was about nine years old and did not enjoy bathing  my sister and I before school.  Has she is three years older than me, I have become accustomed to her untruth tails, to our mother.  She once told our parents that I had a crack cocaine addiction, when all I ever smoked was marijuana, as she sometimes runs out of conversation with mother.  This is the Jasmine that we all love, has this ...

The Cardinal Rules of Democracy  & Employment for a Digital Age   John Maynard Keynes is considered by many, as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20 th century.   A descendant of Norman conquering feudalists, at Eton he traced his ancestors thus far.   Born in 1883, at a time when the sun never set on the British Empire and Britain was in an empirical age of Splendid Isolation, he studied mathematics at Cambridge, where he was advised to study economics.   He became iconic in an age of Georgian reinvention.   Females were allowed to study at Cambridge, the Suffragette movement was in militant full swing and the Bloomsbury sect was the cultural hub of the classical thinkers and politicians of the time.   Virginia Wolfe and Lady Ottoline Morrell were just two of those who challenged the established views on anything from female suffrage and the British Empire.   Keynes became a member of this iconoclastic movement in 1902.  ...

What can one say when defining our fully tax funded police service?  Are they value for the pound, do they keep us safe, do they uphold the law?  Living in London, the city of the 1749 Bow Street Runners whom are considered the world's first police, before Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel who introduced in 1829, the 'Metropolitan Police Act, thus establishing a police force, has a public service that the Home Office would levy taxation to fund.  The London police service, at the height of the Industrial revolution, when there was an exodus from the country side to the UK cities, became part of the romance of the age.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, created London's Sherlock Holmes, in the back drop of a London where brutish thugs and kleptomania were the order of the day.  Holmes and his protégé Dr Watson, were also the heroes of a young street gang called the Baker Street Kids.  They were their young eyes and ears in the new Industrial steam and steel metropo...