Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump…

MARK ALEXANDER: … Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!

Read the newspapers and Trump is everywhere. Check out the videos on YouTube, and he’s everywhere there, too! The ubiquitous Trump is like the bad penny that keeps on popping up! You simply cannot get away from a bad penny, and you can’t get away from Trump, either.

We’ll have this sh** for years to come. At least four years, and if Trump, Bannon and their cronies get their way, for a lot longer even than that!

How are we to be able to retain our sanity?

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I Am a Committed European

MARK ALEXANDER: I should like to take this opportunity to remind my visitors that I am a totally committed European. I am NOT an American. And nor do I want to be one. The Americans have screwed me over once in my life — BIG TIME — so they will never get another chance to do so. Their despicable behaviour has turned me, a one-time lover of America, into an America-sceptic. Americans talk the talk, but fail miserably to walk the walk.

I have lots of experience of what life is like in America. I have spent lots of time there. Life there is not in accordance with our European way of life. Please be wise enough to refrain from holding the American way of life in such high regard. The European way of life is far, far better, far more cultured, and far healthier, too. Let Americans enjoy their corrupt ways; we can enjoy something better, something healthier, something altogether more cultured and altogether different.

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Smoking

MARK ALEXANDER: Today marks two years and nine full months since I last smoked a cigarette. On April 10th, it will be three full years.

Naturally, I am proud of my achievement. But I must say in all honesty that giving up smoking has been a mixed blessing. I have had no cravings. None! But it goes without saying that for a lifelong smoker as I was — for most of my adult life, I smoked a pack a day — inevitably something is missing in my life. Being single, smoking used to keep me company.

Healthwise, certain things have improved. My blood pressure is much, much lower. So much lower, in fact, that I have had to halve my medications for hypertension. Truth to tell, I am no longer hypertensive; in fact, I am quite the opposite. I have to be careful that my blood pressure is high enough!

My eyesight has also improved. Greatly! I have never had bad eyesight, but I used to have to use spectacles for reading. Since quitting smoking, I am now able to read a book, or computer screen, without reading glasses! Not bad, considering my age, I would say. Generally, I do use ready readers when reading a book, though, or when at the computer. Not because I really need them, but out of sheer laziness. Simply put, it is easier that way. I can’t remember the day I used my prescription reading glasses! Two years ago, maybe.

The worst thing about giving up smoking, as far as I am concerned, apart from the lost pleasure — I used to love a smoke — is the fact that since quitting, I have gained weight. Smoking kept my weight stable and kept me relatively slim. Since quitting, despite having a very small appetite and despite eating a very healthy diet, almost sugar-free and low in carbohydrates, I have still gained weight. This is the worst thing about being a non-smoker as far as I am concerned.

Naturally, by not smoking, I have not had to spend any money on cigarettes. That should have been a significant saving. However, my quitting coincided with a time in which energy prices and food prices have skyrocketed, so I can’t honestly say that I have felt the financial benefit of quitting.

For those of you who still smoke, enjoy the cigarettes you smoke. My quitting has in no way turned me into an anti-smoker. In fact, quite the contrary. I am very much for smokers’ rights. I deplore the current war on smoking and smokers. I hate the way that smokers have been attacked at every turn. Will I ever smoke again? Who knows? I have no intention of ever doing so. But I also know that it is very unwise ever to rule anything out in life. And to my way of thinking, people these days do far, far worse things than enjoy the smoking of a cigarette. So, if cigarettes are your thing, all I can say is this: Keep on smoking! Keep on enjoying them.

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Happy New Year! Frohes Neues Jahr! Bonne année ! Blwydden Newydd Dda! ¡Feliz año nuevo! Buon Anno! Feliz Ano Novo! | ! سنة جديدة سعيدة

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MARK ALEXANDER: Here we are at the end of another year. So, I should like to thank you all for your continued support. It is greatly appreciated. Naturally, it would help me a lot if you became followers of mine. My followers never seem to increase despite having so many visitors each week, each month. We will soon be up to six million in total, yet my followers remain the same! Your decision to follow this blog/vlog would be very much appreciated.

We are going into 2025 with the dark cloud of a Trump presidency hanging over us. Many might not agree with my assessment, but the mere thought of four more years of Trump in the White House fills me with trepidation and despair. God only knows what the next four years will bring! Trump has threatened to end democracy in America. I see no reason to disbelieve him. He is already turning the USA into an oligarchy. (Though I would prefer to call it a plutocracy, for I consider that word to be a more accurate description.) Anyway, be it oligarchy or plutocracy, what else can we do but hope for the best?

So, here we are again at the end of the year. Therefore, all that is left for me to do now is to wish you all health, happiness, prosperity, and good luck for the year ahead.

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Happy Christmas to One and All

MARK ALEXANDER: Here we are at the start of Christmas once again. How time flies by!

I should like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your very valued and continued support. Truly, it is much appreciated. In fact, your support sustains me.

As we all know, times are difficult for many, and even dangerous and life-threatening for many others. One thinks of the poor, suffering people in the Ukraine, in Gaza, in the Yemen, in Syria, and in many other countries besides. In Africa, for example, in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan itself.

Then there are areas and countries in the world which are experiencing very difficult economic challenges, such as Argentina. Many Argentinians are suffering from the anarcho-capitalist economic experiment being tried there. And even here at home in Europe, many are suffering from poverty and extreme economic challenges. Many are homeless, and many have difficulty putting food on the table for their children and loved ones. One hopes and prays for them all: hopes and prays for better times ahead for everyone.

Over Christmas, many people will be experiencing loneliness, too. Even in plenty, loneliness can be a particular challenge. Especially for the elderly or for people who have been rejected by their families, possibly because they have had the courage to be true to themselves and have come out. Many families reject their gay children or siblings. Being alone at Christmas, for whatever reason, is a particular challenge for many.

With this backdrop, I should like to send you all my sincere thanks for your staunch and continued support. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for the twelve days of Christmas, and beyond, of course. I want you all to know and be sure that your visits here to this website are not only noticed, but are appreciated greatly. In a strange way, I feel that you are like my family. So, I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Frohe Weihnachten! Joyeux noël! ¡Feliz navidad! Buon Natale! Nadolig Llawen! Feliz Natal! !عيد ميلاد مجيد

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Trump and America Disgust Me. Maybe Its Time to Change Direction. Maybe the Time Has Come for Me to Change My Faith.

MARK ALEXANDER: The West has been so corrupted by Donald Trump and all those mega-billionaire grifters and arsehole-scrapers that I am beginning to think that maybe the best thing I can do now is convert to Islam! Yes, you read that right: convert to Islam.

I spent many years working in the Middle East with Muslims, and I can honestly say that even though their ideas were alien to me at that time, I never encountered such stupidity and nastiness as I read about now each, and every, day here in the West. Especially since that Trump came on the scene. Trump is POISON to the body politic of the West. He is like a cancerous tumour on the West, and that primary cancer is metastasising, as I have said before.

We have got AT LEAST four years of this SHIT ahead of us. Frankly, I don’t know whether I can stand it. I despise that man. Donald Trump is everything in a man that I loathe and despise. He is brash, vulgar, egocentric, boastful, arrogant and, quite frankly, not very bright. And then some!

However, not only is Trump himself sickening, people’s behaviour towards him is also particularly loathsome in that they are queueing up to kiss his arse. They are brown-nosing. And the brown-nosing knows no bounds.

If this is the best that the West can do, then I regret to say that I shall want nothing to do with it. Kneeling to God is one thing; kneeling to this idiot is something else altogether.

It grieves me to have to say this, but maybe the time has come for me to find my nearest mosque to take my Shahada! I shall have to give this solution serious consideration. There is no way that I can revere the West and its poltics under this clown.

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The Downfall of the West — La chute de l'Occident — Der Untergang des Westens

MARK ALEXANDER: America is nothing more than a plutocracy. Some call it an oligarchy. I prefer to call it a plutocracy. A plutocracy is a country ruled by the rich. And that is PRECISELY what America is. It pretends to be a democracy — a republic if you can keep it and all that crap — well, they haven’t kept it, have they? Now, they will have one of the worst of all forms of government: rule by the superrich. The plutocrats are about to rule supreme. The little people there are about to become littler and even less important. The fabulously wealthy are about to become wealthier still. But hey! People with hundreds of billions deserve a few hundred billion more, don’t they? Otherwise, how the hell can we expect them to be able to get by?

Trump is a cancer on the American body politic. Unfortunately, the cancer is metastasising throughout the western world. Trump’s plutocratic administration is going to be an object lesson to the rest of the world in how to enrich yourself and your buddies — and get away with it! And the Americans are stupid enough to put up with this CRAP! What they should be doing is taxing these people to bring down that horrendous national debt.

The West is broken — “BIGLY” — and it deserves the downfall that is coming to it. Who in his right mind would ever want to fight to preserve this ridiculous DISORDER? The West is RIPE for the TAKEOVER. It has LOST THE PLOT.

I am so glad that I am old enough to have experienced the West in the good times. I feel so sorry for the young people of today. They will never have a chance to witness how wonderful it was to be brought up in a sane world.

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Die USA und ihre Interessen

MARK ALEXANDER: Mit der Wiederwahl von Donald Trump haben die Vereinigten Staaten ihren Heiligenschein verloren! Nicht länger können wir uns täuschen, daß die Vereinigten Staaten unsere Interessen im Herzen haben. Für die Vereinigten Staaten sind nur ihre eigenen Interessen wichtig, jetzt und immer. Und die Interessen Anderen nie und nimmer.

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Unsre Zukunft liegt in Europa, nicht in Amerika!

MARK ALEXANDER: Wir sind Europäer! Wie oft muß ich dies sagen? Wir sind keine Amerikaner. Leider, haben viel zu viele Briten Farage und Bojo zugehört. Leute, die gar nichts verstehen und schauen eher an ihres Guthaben als auf unseres.

Wäre es nicht viel besser, wenn wir als Europäer , ostwärts hinschaute als westwärts? Es scheint mir, daß das Schauen nach Westen nicht mehr fruchtbar ist.

Lehnen Sie Amerika ab, insbesondere unter der kommenden Regierung. Es wird uns nichts bringen.

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Say No to Trump’s Shitshow! Say No to Trump’s Advances. Let Us Not Join the Circus

MARK ALEXANDER: The Americans have destroyed the West. They have destroyed the wonderful way of life that Westerners were once able to lead. Americans have destroyed Western values, too. What can we thank Americans for? They have destroyed family life. They have forced mothers out into the workplace, thereby abandoning their traditional roles are mothers, caring wives, and caregivers. Look at women today! And then compare them with women and mothers of yesteryear! Simply put: There is no comparison.

Have the Americans taught the world how to eat healthily? Hardly! Americans are largely overweight, even obese, and they fill their tummies with junk food. Hardly a way of eating to follow which is conducive to good health!

Have Americans taught the world how to dress? Hardly! Elegance is as hard to find in the States as is a needle in haystack! Unless, of course, your idea of elegance is a baseball cap and a T-shirt!

Have Americans taught the world how to enjoy family life? Again, hardly! If anything, with their insistence on working mothers, Americans have destroyed any semblance of wholesome family life.

Have Americans improved the English language? Again, hardly! Just listen to American videos and American TV, they are replete with foul words. The F bomb is dropped with alarming regularity, without anyone batting an eyelid.

Manners have largely disappeared from American life. Gone are the days in which one was addressed as “Sir” in a shop over there.

Americans talk a hell of a lot about Christianity. But do they live their lives in a Christian way? Hardly! First of all, the American’s understanding of Christianity is extremely skewed, to say the least. They believe that Jesus was all about making money! I would wager that the god that Americans worship is not God, but Mammon!

Can Americans teach us how to run a healthcare system? Again, hardly! Americans spend far, far more on healthcare than probably any other nation, yet the outcomes are worse. Furthermore, millions, literally millions, of Americans cannot afford for themselves any healthcare at all.

One could go on. And on!

Just about the only lessons we can learn from America, Americans, are in technology and IT. The rest, we are better off ignoring.

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Stehen uns dunkle Zeiten bevor?

MARK ALEXANDER: Wir leben wieder in verrückten Zeiten. Es ist, als würden wir uns wieder auf die 1930er Jahre zurückkehren. Immer häufiger wird über Faschismus gesprochen, immer häufiger wird Hitlers Name erwähnt, wieder wird von Massendeportationen gesprochen, und schon wieder wird von der Möglichkeit eines Weltkriegs gesprochen! Man muß wirklich hoffen, daß die Politiker im Westen zur Vernunft zurückkehren, bevor es zu spät ist. Es ist höchste Zeit, daß wir zu einer gemäßigten Politik zurückkehren. Von extremer Politik können wir gar nichts Gutes erwarten, nur Elend und Leid. Anscheinend können wir nur auf bessere und schönere Zeiten hoffen. Was können wir sonst noch tun?

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Farah Pahlavi Mémoires

CRITIQUE DE LIVRE : Chaque soir, avant de m'endormir, je lis un livre en français. Je le fais pour améliorer mon français et parce que le français est une langue magnifique. Mon objectif est aussi qu'un jour mon français soit aussi bon que mon anglais et mon allemand. Je suis heureuse de pouvoir dire que j'ai fait de très bons progrès jusqu'à présent.

Je lis actuellement les Mémoires de Farah Pahlavi. C'est un livre fascinant sur sa vie avant et après être devenue la dernière impératrice de Perse. Si vous aimez les mémoires, je vous recommande vivement celui-ci, surtout si vous vous intéressez à l'Iran.

L'Iran devait être un pays très fascinant avant que les ayatollahs ne prennent le pouvoir et ne ruinent le pays par l'islamisation. Comme nous le savons tous, il fut un temps où l'Iran se tournait vers l'Occident pour trouver l'inspiration et pour le progrès, et non vers les siècles passés. Les femmes s'habillaient également comme les femmes occidentales, montrant leurs cheveux et portant des jupes courtes.

Ce livre extrêmement intéressant retrace la vie de Farah Pahlavi, la dernière Shâhbanou d'Iran (la reine et l'impératrice). Née Farah Diba, elle a étudié l'architecture à Paris où elle a rencontré Mohammad Reza Shâh Pahlavi alors que le Shâh était en visite en France. Ils sont ensuite tombés amoureux.

Ce livre retrace la vie de Farah Pahlavi depuis son enfance jusqu'à son jeune âge adulte et les années où elle et le Shâh se sont mariés jusqu'à l'époque où la monarchie a été déposée, et au-delà.

Si vous êtes intéressé par la lecture de mémoires et si vous aimez lire des livres en français, je ne peux que vous recommander ce merveilleux livre. De plus, pour une personne qui essaie d'améliorer son vocabulaire français, ce livre fera des merveilles.

Ce livre se lit comme un conte de fées.

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HTML Irregularities Are Being Found

MARK ALEXANDER: In recent times, I have started coming across HTML irregularities in my postings, causing the printed word to turn gold where it shouldn’t. This is not me ‘losing it’; rather, it is what happens when someone else is playing around with my posts.

At first, I thought I had made mistakes. But now I have been able to prove that it is someone else that is causing the trouble.

If only I knew who it was, I’d buy him a rattle and a dummy (pacifier)! By gosh, he needs something to while his time away.

So, if you see these errors, you will know what is happening.

Sincerely
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Elon Musk sagt Folgendes: „Die Tage der EU sind gezählt – wir müssen uns vorbereiten!“

MARK ALEXANDER: In dieser Hinsicht hat Elon Musk absolut recht. Keine Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft kann ohne Babys gedeihen. Meine Besucher werden sicherlich gelesen haben, was ich diesbezüglich schon oft gesagt habe, nämlich daß das Schlimmste, was dem Westen – nicht nur Europa – je passiert ist, war, als Frauen das Zuhause und die Mutterschaft zugunsten des Arbeitsplatzes und einer Karriere aufgaben. Seitdem werden im Westen zu wenige Babys geboren, was diese existenzielle Krise verursacht. Westliche Politiker haben Frauen ermutigt, dies ebenfalls zu tun, und sie in den Arbeitsmarkt gelockt. Damit haben sie den Wert der Mutterschaft zerstört und diese Krise der niedrigen Geburtenraten verursacht. Je früher wir wieder dazu übergehen, die Mutterschaft auf ein Podest zu stellen und wieder mit der Fortpflanzung beginnen, desto besser! Andernfalls wird nicht nur die Europäische Union einer existenziellen Bedrohung ausgesetzt sein, sondern der gesamte Westen. Denken Sie daran: Der Islam ist sehr stark und gewinnt an Stärke, nicht wegen seiner überlegenen Waffen, sondern wegen seiner Hingabe an Mutterschaft und Fortpflanzung. Tradition schlägt jedes Mal neumodische Ideen!

In this respect, Elon Musk is absolutely right. No society or economy can thrive without babies. My visitors will surely have read what I have stated concerning this many times before, namely that the worst thing that ever happened to the West — not just Europe — was when women abandoned the home and motherhood in favour of the workplace and a career. Ever since, too few babies have been born in the West, thus causing this existential crisis. Western politicians have been encouraging women to do this, too, and enticing them into the workplace. In so doing, they have trashed the worth of motherhood and caused this crisis of low births. The sooner we get back to putting motherhood on a pedestal and start procreating again, the better! Otherwise, it won't only be the European Union that has an existential threat, but the West as a whole. Remember this: Islam is very strong and gaining in strength not because of its superior arms, but because of its dedication to motherhood and procreation. Tradition trumps new-fangled ideas every time! – © Mark Alexander

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”Assisted Dying”

MARK ALEXANDER: Assisted dying is a euphemism for euthanasia. Let us be clear about that! So, let us call it exactly what it is.

I know that there are strong arguments in favour of euthanasia, but there are also many strong arguments against it. The harsh reality is that humans have started to play God; and the Anglican Church is strangely silent on this most sensitive of issues.

Our atheist leader — the Führer — is said to be all for it. But then he would be, wouldn’t he, with his belief system, or lack of one? Surely, he will be glad to be able to pass such a bill; the billions saved for the Treasury will quickly start to fill his “black hole”.

These days, most people bundle their old and infirm into care homes, without compunction. Life is easier that way! That they do this is a sad indictment of the über-materialistic times we live in, a sad indictment of modern Western societies.

The West truly has lost its way now. Expect its demise sooner rather than later. This moral void will most certainly be filled, however. We are a post-Christian society now: people have abandoned Christianity. They have abandoned God. But I believe it is true to say that God will not have abandoned them. He will manifest Himself in another way, in another, fast-growing religion in this country: Islam.

We need to think carefully about this step into the unknown, which we appear determined to take.

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ADDENDUM:

It should be noted that doctors practise “assisted dying” already. I know this for a fact because my life’s partner was assisted in his passing in Philadelphia in 2016 under my very own eyes. His continued and long-term hospital care became too expensive for his premium health insurance to countenance. So, steps were taken to help him on his way! It was so subtle, even I didn’t realise what was happening until it was too late! – © Mark Alexander

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The Importance of Conservatives Bolstering the Traditional Family

MARK ALEXANDER: Conservatives abandoned the traditional family years ago. No society can be strong if the traditional family unit is not encouraged. The indigenous population in this country is short of babies; immigrant families are generally not short of them. It is easy to see why Islam is growing apace in this country.

Feminism has a lot to answer for. When women started preferring the workplace over the home, where they can procreate, this country started going downhill. No society can thrive when childlessness is preferred over motherhood.

A sensible Conservative government should pull all the stops out to help and promote the traditional family unit — a unit in which children can be raised properly and well at home, not in kindergartens by strangers.

The proper education of a child is two-pronged: formal and informal. Formal education is what a child gets in schools, colleges, and universities; informal education is what a child gets in the home from the parents. Children these days, because of working mothers and absent fathers, generally lack informal education. Informal education is extremely important for the development of the child.

If we want a properly functioning society, it behoves the Conservatives to foster traditional families and traditional family values. This is true not only for us in the UK but also for the West in general. If something isn’t done about this soon, the West will be lost — to Islam, the way of life which respects the traditional family. The West needs its own babies not more productivity from working mothers. The choice is yours!

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Starmer’s Absurd Idea of Introducing a Law Criminalising Islamophobia

MARK ALEXANDER: This country needs no Islamophobia law. There is nothing phobic about fearing Islam. A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing Islam. For starters, it wants to take over the country. Muslims believe that the country will eventually belong to them. Each country it has been allowed into to put down roots, it has eventually taken over. Further, I can think of only one country where this process has been reversed: Al Andalus, or Moorish Spain. It should be noted that it took the Spaniards 800 years to expel the Moors!

Further, the ‘religion’ — more accurately the ‘way of life’ — has some abysmal practices such as killing homosexuals, killing apostates, stoning women to death for disobedience, treating women unequally, stoning people to death for godlessness, etc. The list of transgressions and wicked punishments goes on and on.

So why, exactly, should this country adopt a law outlawing Islamophobia? Until Islam is reformed — which will never happen because it is believed that the words in the Qur’an are the actual words of Allah! — and until Islam becomes enlightened, until Islam stops being supremacist, until Islam gives up its desire to impose the Shari’ah, we would be crazy not to fear it! Ergo, no law outlawing Islamophobia has any place in a modern, progressive country such as the United Kingdom.

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Wenn man Lebensfreude ignoriert...

MARK ALEXANDER: Ich möchte mich bei Ihnen melden, um Ihnen zu sagen, daß was in meinem Land passiert unter der Herrschaft Starmers sehr unerwünscht und sehr unbequem ist. Unser Führer, Keir Starmer, versteht keinen Spaß, keinen Genuß. Starmer ist ein freudloser Mann. Er ist ein erbärmlicher Mensch, der kein Verständnis für die Freude am Leben hat.

Ich bitte Euch, uns Briten Mitgefühl für uns zu haben. Wir sind eigentlich arme Menschen, die es nicht mehr verstehen, Freude am Leben zu haben.

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UK, August 2024: Dark Times Have Arrived: We Have a Far-left Government; Freedom of Speech Is a Thing of the Past; Our Days of Being a Democracy Are Also Possibly Numbered

MARK ALEXANDER: For the second time in a week, I've had trouble sleeping. This is highly unusual for me, since I usually sleep like a log. But there is a simple answer for this: There is a sense of unease in this nation, a sense of fear. People no longer know what can be said with impunity. People are even being locked up for saying or posting the wrong thing. Speaking against the government’s narrative is no longer tolerated, it seems. Speak against the official line and you will be punished! People are being shut up by the government using the tactic of intimidation.

I have been blogging for about twenty-three years, but I have never felt like this before. Since Keir Starmer became prime minister, there has been a fundamental change in the nation. Our rights and freedoms are quickly being eroded.

I am a retired man who has never been in trouble with the law — ever. At this age, I don’t intend to start having such troubles, either. So I have decided to stop blogging.

The fun of blogging is being able to share interesting material with one’s visitors, both regular and occasional. And, in a funny kind of way, one’s visitors keep one company. One’s visitors are like ersatz friends. Each day, I look to see if my regular visitors have popped in to check out what I have posted. It brings me great joy when I find that they have.

But another joy of blogging is being able to share with you all my views on a particular subject. I can do that either by writing an essay or by posting a comment under one of the videos or articles. Until Starmer came to power, I could do that with impunity. I never had to think about what I said, because I knew that I was free to say what I liked, within reason. But all that has changed now. Now, people who post on social media are being watched. This is very bad. Especially in this country, because we have no written constitution. Without a written constitution, what one is allowed to say, or write, is fluid. So, one can never be sure that what one is writing will in some small way fall foul of the law. Fall foul of the law and you’re in trouble!

The Americans have their freedom of speech written into the American Constitution in the form of the First Amendment. We have no such right written in stone. This is troubling indeed.

Not having a written constitution worked when the country’s demographic make-up was largely homogenous. When just about all the people were Christian, or nominally so, not having a written constitution worked. But the demographic make-up of the UK, under a succession of prime ministers, has been changed out of all recognition. It is now hammered home to us that we are living in a multicultural, multi-ethnic country. That this is so has become increasingly obvious to all by now. But it is for this reason that having a WRITTEN CONSTITUTION is more important than it has ever been. In my opinion, we Brits need to be furnished with a written constitution as a matter of urgency. We need to know what our rights are. We also need to know what we can and cannot say. This shouldn’t be based on guesswork.

Nigel Farage and his cohorts dragged us out of the European Union, partly on the promise of regaining our sovereignty. If this is an example of us regaining our sovereignty, I don’t like it one little bit! Being members of the European Union gave us rights and freedoms. At that time, I was a citizen of Europe, with all the attendant rights that being a citizen of Europe brought with it. Now, I am a mere subject of the King. My rights are what the King and his government deem to be right and proper. But this can change according to whim and according to the government of the day. This is not good enough, and it is unsettling.

Under these sad circumstances, I have decided to stop blogging. Fact is, I no longer feel free to say what I wish to say. My country has entered dark days, and darker they will surely get. In fact, my country is in crisis. Its economic performance is lamentable; its subjects’ rights and freedoms are being taken away – eroded.

All I can now do is a.) hope for more auspicious times, and/or b.) look for another country that will give me a safe home. If things get much worse under this authoritarian regime, I shall have to give careful consideration to the idea of claiming asylum in some other friendly country! As a writer, I need the freedom to express my thoughts without worry or concern. I no longer feel comfortable doing that in Starmer’s Britain.

I should like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and loyalty. Your support and loyalty have meant a great deal to me: your loyalty and support have seen me through some very depressing times, especially during the grieving years when I lost my American partner to oesophageal cancer. You helped dig me out of the grieving pit! Again, I thank you all kindly for that.

The material on this blog will remain open to you all. That includes essays going back more than twenty years. And I must add that if times improve, I shall be back with you. In the meantime, I wish you all farewell.

Most sincerely,
© Mark Alexander

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THANK YOU SO MUCH! IT’S A RED LETTER DAY

MARK ALEXANDER: We have reached more than FIVE MILLION VISITS today! Thank you all, visitors and followers alike, for your LOYALTY and continued SUPPORT. Your LOYALTY and SUPPORT are so much appreciated. Again, THANK YOU! – © Mark Alexander