Author name: Hugh McManners

We Need to be Beautiful

When an FBI  forensic artist drew portraits of women according to their own descriptions of themselves, and then a second sketch according to the descriptions of another woman they’d met, the differences were incredible – and telling:  http://realbeautysketches.dove.com/ Apparently only 4% of the world’s women believe themselves to be beautiful.  I don’t know if there

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We should be remembering Veterans while they’re still alive.

You’ve probably seen this story  – about a WW2 Bomber Command veteran who died without family or friends in a nursing home. This obituary led to a call for people to attend his funeral. The end result was a huge crowd standing outside because the chapel was totally full. There were uniformed Air Cadets, veterans

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A Litmus Test for War: Britain’s National Interests

By accident, the United Kingdom has done “The Right Thing” with regard to Syria.One could argue that this is how democracy operates; by cutting through the politicking to what people really think when it’s important. But we were lucky.  To ensure we learn and achieve something useful from this, the UK must stop trying to

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Consequences of All British Military Action Requiring Parliamentary Approval

After the the bugled debate on whether Britain should take military action against Syria and its chemical weapons,  parliamentary voices are now demanding that the Prime Minister be stripped of his legal right to send British forces into action. They are encouraged by the Prime Minister’s declaration that as Parliament has debated Syria, that’s an

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Sharia Law, Vigilantism and Islamophobia

A court in Sydney has found a group of men accused of administering 40 lashes as a Sharia Law punishment, guilty of assault. In what seems to be a similar attempt to create zones of sharia law within western democracies, Asian vigilantes in East London have been threatening and assaulting homosexuals, and women they feel to be “inappropriately dressed”. In response, there have been reciprocal anti -Islam protests, from

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Pork-Barrel Lobbyists, Fit Women and the Threat to US Democracy

  A second term President has the potential to do a lot more in his second “first hundred days” than in his first term. But being hamstrung by party bickering and lack of majority, President Obama will struggle with his budget and other domestic reforms.  Hamstrung Presidents usually turn to foreign policy, where they’re not

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