One advantage
of the web nowadays is that instead of sweating over a hot typewriter or
lurking in libraries you can write pick up information very easily. Which is why link blogs are popular.
We all need sleep so we all have an interest, hat tip to one of the
family. This longish item from slumber
wise may tell us why so many do not sleep well according to the conventional
way of our times. It claims that sleep
patterns not so long ago were different.
Our modern practice may not be the best.
Most of us travel and this one from Simon Jenkins of The Guardian,
under the heading of The Long Read, hat tip Orphans of Liberty, is about the
history and politics of the HS2 project.
This blog has serious objections to the project as an occasional
railwayman of the 1950's along with near eighty years moving by train.
What is
striking is that it is not just an article dealing with the issues of transport
and what may or may not be best. It is a
major example of how our politics and governments function these days and their
preparedness to lavish money on high profile projects and activity at the cost
of basic activities or less media friendly ones.
One aspect of
such projects is that almost invariably the future running costs, maintenance,
interest charges on debt are not considered.
The consequence is loss making activity that has to be met by debt,
taxes, or pricing in the future.
There are risks unwanted in life and all those with a pensions interest
either now or in the future do not like risk.
But Frances Coppola reminds us that life is not like that and that being
risk averse is counter productive. The
present situation is getting worse.
What is the point of a Referendum is as the BBC suggests, hat tip
The Slog, Parliament may decide to take no notice and indeed frustrate the wish
to Leave the EU? This blog on 27 May
last under "Hanging Parliament" suggested it was possible for the
Government to effectively block our exit because in Parliament most members at
Remainers.
Now is it time
for a kip, or a trip, or to check the bank account or to deal with the postal
vote?
I can't see our ancestors managing to fit two sleeps into a short summer night.
ReplyDeleteA better way is to copy MPs and sleep through part of the day, such as HS2 debates.