Alan B,
Will all due respect you either missed what I was saying or you are, like most educated, utterly ignorant of the situation in an area you yourself criticised only a few days ago !

The anti-globalisation protestors referred to by mikk, like all protestors and traffic disrupting anarchists, were more interested in being anti-social than they were in a cause. They are the same people who protest and wave placards about anything from homosexuality to climate change to imagined racism. Rent-a-crowd halfwits, who achieve only contempt for themselves and put the majority of people against whatever they are raving about. There is no better way to put the majority of people against you than to go out on the streets shouting, screaming, and breaching the peace.

ttbn: Hear, hear and well said! There's no place for politics (as usual) in a pandemic!

That aside, those enterprises with the begging bowl extended? Be they our very profitable airlines or shipping lines with billion-dollar bottom lines?

Need to come bearing big bundles of equity, so the future incomes these wealthy enterprises earn carrying folk or freight can repay the requested government largesse!

Otherwise, we will again, socialise the losses and privatise the profits!

I mean, our generation paid far higher taxes some of which serviced pre ww1 borrowings! And eventually to the great, great-grandkids of the original British lenders! All of who would have rubbed their, never ever employed hands, all the way to the bank!?

As we repaid the original borrowings ten times over and beyond, may be still paying?

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

Well today I'm sticking up for racism.

But before you all go torches an pitchforks on me. please take note of the fine print.

Fine-Print.
I'm not supporting racism because I support denigrating other races, No.
I'm supporting racism, because if we don't recognise that ethnicity directly relates to national identity, then what we all become is bastardised political correct generic global provinces, except for Israel of course, who is exempt from this PC BS, and likely responsible for promoting it.

Under PC your whole life become primarily focused with 'hate crimes' gay rights, feminism and minorities like some sort of sick twisted alternative universe, and I'm not copping it, (well not today anyway).
They're only promoting it to remove you from your national identity.
Hey I've got a great idea, lets discuss transgender toilets and such.
Ughh.

If your Jewish it's perfectly fine to denigrate the 'non-human animals' that live next door.
Lets see how many kneecaps we can collect becaue unarmed civilians approach our fence?
Lets just go chop down their olive grove because we don't like their 'race'.

Oh and btw my criticism of Israel is not denigration of Israel on the basis of race, it's denigration on the basis of merit.
2 different things that should not be conflated.

You're all stupid muppets in one big sick joke being played upon the world.

Hey Mr Opinion,

"What I have said above has nothing to do with what I think and all to do with what I know."

- Just like the same way you knew everyone here was religious?

And as for being a member of The Forum's Old Farts Club, I'm not sure they'd have me, (I'm probably not old enough for starters) and besides I think I'm probably more in a league of my own.

Alan B, you credit Europeans with far too much. Many infectious diseases didn’t come from Europe but Africa. Leprosy, tuberculosis, small pox etc all are thought to have come from Africa.
Venereal disease was thought to be introduced into Europe by sailors returning from the New World, in particular, the Americas.
Leprosy was introduced into Australia by a chinese worker.
All races are equally opportunity disease spreaders.