Category Archives: politics

Hope Amid the Slaughter

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Mark Hayes

There is the tiniest spark of hope in the face of a malignant cancer that is eating away at the natural world. However, I must start with the opposite of hope. The West African black rhino has gone the way … Continue reading →

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Letting the other half govern (finally)

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Mark Hayes

Back in 2013, on my previous blog, I wrote a post called ‘Women in politics, politics in decline’. It contained a lot of facts and figures, mainly because it started out before that as part of an essay for the … Continue reading →

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All we are saying…

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Mark Hayes

This post, like some others I have made, started out as a minor rant and attempt at light heartiness in response to a mild bout of despair at the human condition because if you can’t at least try to raise … Continue reading →

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Polarising America

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Mark Hayes

The polarisation of American society over this Presidential Election is the worst I have ever witnessed. The partisan hatred between Republican and Democratic camps has grown in vitriol and anger with each passing week. Each side seems entirely blind to anything … Continue reading →

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I blame Rod Stewart

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Occasionally, when half in a daze, a single line from someone, or a song on the radio,  sends me off on a bizarre train of thought that has no logic or reason to it. This happened a few nights ago… … Continue reading →

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Brexit and racism

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Mark Hayes

‘Its Okay to be a racist again’ At least that’s the impression the world seems to have all of a sudden. It’s a worrying trend, towards hate, isolationism and xenophobia that has been brewing all year on both sides of … Continue reading →

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Referendums, Brexit, and we the people…

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Why do we have a parliament? Why not just put everything to a referendum? Let the people decide like they did with the EU? This may seem like a strange set of questions to ask, but someone, somewhere, is asking … Continue reading →

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American politics, a view from outside the ranch

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Having finally at least reached the point where equality between straight and gay was given in that most basic of things, the right to marry the one you love, the GOP in individual states is trying to drag the world … Continue reading →

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What did the treaty of Rome ever do for us?

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Mark Hayes

With apologies to my Non-British readers. Who will probably read little further than this, this is a post about the forthcoming in-out referendum on the EU that we will be having in Britain in a few months. Which for the … Continue reading →

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Politics a bit of a rant

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Mark Hayes

(wrote this on my phone a couple of days ago while waiting for my girlfriend in a sports centre drinking a latte and generally passing time. so its a bit of a rant and perhaps not overly insightful , but … Continue reading →

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