I hear that now scientists have managed to create sperm from stem cells men will be surplus to requirements and women will take over the world.
That's just as soon as the women have finished the ironing, made the bed, put the kids to sleep, cooked dinner and cleaned the bathroom.
I hear on BBC Radio 4 today that the Mayor of London, Ken Livingtone, is proposing to triple the daily "congestion charge" paid for private vehicles to enter Central London to 25 UK pounds (about 40 US dollars) per day for SUV's (otherwise known as "SUV's" or "Chelsea Tractors") while at the same time reducing the charge for hybrid vehicles.
What a SPLENDID idea!
I know central London very well. I was a student there in the 1960's and I have travelled to or through it thousands of times and in the last thirty five years I have never used a private vehicle. London has by far the best public transport system in the world and I can find absolutely no possible justification for the use of private vehicles in the city centre.
London's example should be followed by other major world cities.
Back in the bad old days of Reagan and Thatcher there used to be a satirical show on British televsion called Spitting Images. There was a running gag showing Maggie Thatcher (as a poodle, I believe) following Ronald Reagan around with her nose permanently up Reagan's butt.
We have all seen (and hopefully been sickened by) the brown nosing of Tony Blair towards George Bush over Iraq and Afghanistan but a current case in England is highlighting the gross imbalance between the US and the UK.
The case involves three financial "experts" who formerly worked in the City of London and are now being extradited to the United States to face charges in connection with the collapse of Enron. They are due to be flown under the care of US marshals from Gatwick to Houston on Thursday, July 13th.
These three British citizens face the possibility of up to two years in a Texas jail awaiting trial.
I carry no flag for Enron, the City of London or the Capitalist System but this extradition is outrageous. It is a one-sided treaty heavily skewed in America's favour. The standard of proof needed for the UK to extradite an American citizen from the US to the UK is much higher than the other way round.
And the United States Senate has not even ratified this treaty.
Britons ought to be blockading the entrance to Gatwick airport to draw attention to this outrage.
I have been writing my America from the Inside blog for about fifteen months now but I decided that some of my thoughts didn't quite fit that blog.
As a British citizen living overseas and visiting England about three times a year I have a strong interest in how England and the rest of the United Kingdom is developing. I stay very closely in touch with the UK by listening to two or three hours of BBC Radio 4 each day.
I see a distressing drift in the UK toward American Capitalist values, obscene consumerism, government bias towards support of big business to the detriment of working people, government increasingly out of touch with the people.
I will use this blog to report and comment on the evils of the UK as I see them.
I will also use my America from the Inside to continue to report on the evils of the US.
