WCL 621 — A society is democratic to the extent that decisions of government are determined by those who are affected by them. [Note particularly that our society is now global.] Read the rest of this entry »
Democracy: definition and implications
Posted by John Roberts on 23 January, 2010
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Without vision
Posted by John Roberts on 16 January, 2010
WCL 620 — As the Bible so rightly put it: “without vision, the people perish”, and reading an article by Timothy Garton Ash about Europe and the future reminded me forcibly of that comment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Are suicidal acts becoming fashionable?
Posted by John Roberts on 29 December, 2009
Christmas is a busy time for many people, but news is scarcer in the busier developed world, where holidays take over for days at a time and entertainment replaces much of the toil. Read the rest of this entry »
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What can one do?
Posted by John Roberts on 21 December, 2009
WCL 620 — This question is quite often asked when would-be reformers are faced with the immensity of problems in a world going badly wrong. One can only really reply with an account of one’s own attempts. Read the rest of this entry »
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Why world citizenship?
Posted by John Roberts on 12 November, 2009
WCL 619 — This World Citizen Letter is so simple and obvious that it should be unnecessary to write it or even to state it, but one still regularly hears the questions what is a world citizen, why is it necessary to be one? Read the rest of this entry »
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Subversive computers
Posted by John Roberts on 8 November, 2009
DIARY — An interesting account from the NY Herald Tribune explains how the move of computer component manufacture from America to the East is worrying the Pentagon. Read the rest of this entry »
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David Cameron the federalist
Posted by John Roberts on 6 November, 2009
DIARY — The leader of the Conservative Party in Britain seems to have become a federalist – or on the way – without noticing it. He is demanding, it appears, that the central authority in the European Union should not go beyond the powers allocated to it in the Lisbon Treaty Read the rest of this entry »
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Guy and Renee Marchand
Posted by John Roberts on 5 November, 2009
DIARY — In the years of Guy and Renee Marchand, two of the central activists in France for 50 years from 1945, I had been closely in touch with the citoyens du monde there. Read the rest of this entry »
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Black holes and God
Posted by John Roberts on 4 November, 2009
DIARY — Yesterday the BBC had a TV programme about ‘Black Holes’, the very baffling phenomena supposedly scattered about the universe. Read the rest of this entry »
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American justice and human values
Posted by John Roberts on 1 November, 2009
WCL 618 — The rulers of a country that arranged the obliteration of 80,000 men, women and children in a few minute on one sunny morning; and then decorated their airmen, not as war criminals, but as heroes, are not likely to suffer from over-strong impulses to humanity. Read the rest of this entry »
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