Tag: freedom

• Don’t Tell me What to Think…

  

  I intended to put up a different post here, but circumstances alter plans… There is a stream of thought nibbling away at the foundations of my country’s society, and like a termite infestation, it is perfectly capable of bringing down the whole building. I AM NOT – AND I SHARE THIS WITH MOST PEOPLE IN…

  frederick anderson

  April 16, 2021

  Opinion, Social Comment

  Destruction, freedom, Racism, society, Thought Control, Totalitarianism, Warnings, Wokeism

• Letterboxes and Bank Robbers

  I’ll tell you why I hate the hijab, or niqab, or burka. I hate it because it reminds me of the Ku Klux Klan, of the balaclavas worn by the IRA, of any movement or organisation that decides to conceal itself from outsiders – in short, anyone with something to hide. Alright, I know the…

  frederick anderson

  August 11, 2018

  Uncategorized

  Alienation, ban, burqa, freedom, Fundamentalism, Hijab, integrating, international, Islam, Letterbox, subjugation, women

• Salad Days

  It is time to confess:  I am seventy.  I have reached the gates of Old Age. I was a novice of sixty-five when I first hung up my gloves and placed my favourite chair determinedly close to the hearth.   That new dictum of ‘behaviour in retirement’ took time to learn.  I had to understand that…

  frederick anderson

  May 26, 2017

  Uncategorized

  Allotment, Ceremonies, DIY, Dotage, freedom, humour, Idleness, Old age, retirement, Septuagenarian