Tag Archives: #HeadlineTherapy

Thanks to Grace Eliza Goodwin and BBC Online News for the Headline.

To be honest, my internet feed had bombarded me with three stories about UK Council’s plans to clamp down on ‘Shed Bakeries” where someone sets up a business selling their home baked cakes in a shed at the front of their house. Where cakes are sold basically on an honesty box basis. Council’s are looking into whether these businesses should be required to have a street trader’s licence. Frankly I find these “sheds” an eyesore and also a potential health risk,not to mention we eat too much sweet stuff anyway.

And then Mr Hegseth came along, and I’m afraid he topped the Headline Therapy Chart for today. There was a video attached to the article , it was 42 seconds, so I thought why not? Hesgeth came across as if he didn’t believe what he was saying either. Which would have been funny if it hadn’t affected for me the solemnity of the D-Day event.

His speech writer made the point of criticising European Capitals and suggesting that Beaches in Spain, Italy , Greece and Belgium were being inundated by foreigners expecting an easy life and everything for free. So the American’s don’t like the “all inclusive holidays” either.

The point of the speech was somehow to say that Europe was not addressing the illegal entry to Europe by sea, of people (Hesgeth said Men as the rest don’t count) , men , women and children, many traumatised , in some cases leaving war zones and in the best case scenario “economic migrants” from Africa and the Middle East.

The BBC highlighted a pattern with JD Vance, commenting on a recent Court Case in the UK and trying to stir racial hatred by citing it as an example of migrant violence, which it was not.

I say pattern, as I probably would not have noticed it but for Hesgeth ( The United States Secretary of War) and JD Vance (The Vice President of the United States) are both singing loudly from the same hymn sheet. Following President Trump’s comments saying that Europe was heading towards “civilisational erasure” , whatever that is.

It strikes me that this is all very embarrassing behaviour from America’s representatives. The humanitarian angle of the loss of lives in war and the human cost of wars and all forms of intolerance is far too great to have these “representatives ” mouthing off their ignorance , particularly using an event , such as D-Day to espouse ideas which are not far from what the men and women in World War Two were fighting against. Hesgeth’s words were dishonourable and shameful in this context.

Yes I’m afraid Mr Hesgeth you topped the #HeadlineTherapy Charts for all the wrong reasons.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to the Cumbria Crack for the Headline.

I must admit I didn’t know what pyramid rings were, but having googled them , despite them having dangerous pointy bits, they are regarded as jewellery pieces. They can be made in gold and silver and represent protection that you need from a variety of threats and dangers.The ancient symbol of the Pyramid represents strength , energy and renewal.

However, as the Cumbria Police obviously recognise they are also a potential offensive weapon, easily allowing someone to gouge out another’s eye. So the rings were confiscated from a van heading towards the Fair’s trading fields.

Other weapons and counterfeit goods were siezed on the first day of the fair.

It seems sad that what maybe should be an Ancient Tradition and a chance to celebrate the Beauty of the Area and the Horses is turned into a vindictive , nasty event with counterfeit goods and weapons on sale.

Well done to Cumbria Police and Westmoreland and Furness Trading Council’s Trading Standards Department for making it a event that isn’t promoting violence and illegality.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Amy Clarke and BBC Online News for the Headline.

An incineration Company in South London has been granted to permission to increase it’s quota of incinerated waste that it is allowed to process,by the Environment Agency despite objections from local people and the Council.

The local Council and People living near the site have objected strongly to this increase stating that the Company involved have already breached their permit a number of times and that there will be an increase in traffic and bad smells in the area due to lorries queuing to bring the waste in to be destroyed.

The Company has also now been given permission by the Environment Agency to store Clinical Waste which cannot be burned, which in Central London , seems a very strange permission to give as I wonder what they are going to do with it.

It seems very heavy handed of the Environment Agency to ignore the Council’s wishes on this and having just had that rather serious heatwave last week in May, shouldn’t more thought and consideration go in to handling all this waste and what is causing it, rather than going for a quick fix.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏

Thanks to Lynette Horsburgh and BBC Online News for the Headline

That’s just whippy do, 200 MP’s out of a possible 650MP’s support a Campaigner who has highlighted the fact that Hospices who used to provide care for those at the end of their lives who are desperately in need have empty bed now because they do not have the funds to support the Communities they live in.

The Campaigner, Corin Dalby, who is Chief Executive of Box Power CIC( an energy advisory Company that’s being operating ten years) supports Charities in his local area and noticed how hospices are struggling. His business tries to help, but as he says if the funding was correctly allocated the NHS could save a lot of money and the Hospices could get on and do their work and not be spending time fundraising .

In truth, there probably aren’t many people in the UK who haven’t been touched by the work of a Hospice. They are truly uplifting places, a “safe” place to go through a phase of life that everyone will have to face . Where the expertise in palliative care is translated to a passage of relief and dignity.

Frankly I am furious that Corin Dalby doesn’t have the support of all 650MP’s and also how tragic that a city the size of Liverpool now only has one Hospice.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Christian Thorsberg and The Smithsonian magazine for the Headline

Sad to say, the penalty that this father and daughter may suffer is as much as Twenty years in prison. To be honest some of these people who bought the fake are still have an interesting painting, albeit created by some unknown artist in Poland and presented to the buyer as an original of a famous artist.

What does it matter if they like it? Most of the artists are dead anyway and what is decor , but a choice of colours.

With the costs involved I don’t think that they made that much money anyway. I think it is a waste of time sending them to prison.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Marianna Spring and BBC Online News for the Headline

There is nothing stranger than human behaviour when the rabble are provoked into action by channels of misinformation which lead to false conclusions and heightened anxiety. The worst scenario, there is a revenge killing, like what happened in an America that hopefully is not regressing back to such events with lynchings of black men accused of raping white women.

For the population of Epsom the reality of this frenzy occurred and vandalism and attacks on property occurred when a group of protesters (or potential lynchers) forced entry into a hotel they thought was housing asylum seekers. It wasn’t , so red faces all around and arrests for criminal damage.

The article is about how Social Media and the Police communicated the information which led to the behaviour. However, the punchy headline says it all to me. Too many people jump to the wrong conclusion on the basis of misguided beliefs backed up by a sound bite of information.

If someone had been killed , all the talking and meetings in the World won’t bring them back or take away their arbitrary sentence.

Apparently now the Police say a Gang Rape did not occur, so I presume the way they handled the “investigation” will be reviewed.

Namaste and Thank You for reading.🙏

Thanks to Angus Cochrane and BBC News Online for the Headline.

I’m in hysterics about this, not that I care about the said Scottish Reform Leader’s Lord Offord. In his own word’s a self-made man, worked hard all his life as a banker, moving money here and there and employed loads of people who are now his target for voting for the wonderful Reform Party. Perhaps he should have given more of his ex-employees a pay rise. Perhaps the voting public are not immune to the treatment they got from “6 boat Malc” in the past.

The Greens say one house is enough for anyone, actually I’m inclined to agree with them on that. As for six boats and five cars, jeez I wouldn’t want to see Lord Offord’s back garden, I mean where does he store and more importantly maintain them. Of course he may or may not have “people who do for him and his family” and I suppose that is one form of employment.

And that my friends is his solution for Scotland. The STV Television Debate outlined his proposal, that what Scotland needed was more Lord Offord types and less normal jobs for people who couldn’t rise to the occasion as he has done of being so greedy and constantly worrying about what other people think of them and their possessions. ( Did you hear Mavis , he’s got another Lamborghini?).

I’m not a fan of TV Debate’s, they are just soundbites and the real work of Government is in the detail, but there is so much more to consider than individual success or appearances.

TV Debates are a listen don’t speak, attempt at polarising discussion and reducing it to inane entertainment. Lord Offord sounds a bit of a plonker , but he obviously doesn’t think he is with his houses, cars and boats.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thank You to Ivan Khomenko and United24Media for the Headline

In truth when I read this headline I thought World War Three had started. But no it’s a reallocation to a French Satellite Company Maia Space of contracts for sending satellites into space. The Russians have been excluded from working any further on these projects with the European Space Agency(ESA) because of their invasion of Ukraine.

However,it has all ended in a gentlemany fashion with any key Russian parts being extracted by the Russians and the structure which consisted of a 52 meter mobile service tower that had been part of the Soyuz launch infrastructure being demolished in a controlled explosion.

Kindly the other bits like the assembly and testing complex, railway lines ,liquid oxygen storage facilities and fueling system will be transferred to MaiaSpace. The plan is to reuse up to 80% of the existing infrastructure.

Seems cooperation and working together with the aim of pursuing a scientific goal still happens and will keep happening and all the noise about “ending civilisation’s” is just so much hot air.

Thanks to Marcus Boothe and BBC News Online for the Headline

The “Bristol Blue Glass ” Company has tragically decided that it will close.

Blue Glass as a product has a long history originating from Bristol and pioneered since the 1780’s by artisans , characterised by it’s intense blue colour it’s heyday was with aristocrats in the 18th century and the glass itself is created by adding cobalt oxide to lead crystal. It’s certainly a craft that we do not want to die. There has been a petition signed by 7000 people to try and keep the business going.

However, as the public statement by the business has said that they need to be able to run a manufacturing business and not support an expensive hobby which has no chance of giving those who operate and work in it a sustainable livelihood.

So there we go another layer of quality and expertise in craftsmanship is eroded. I note that the owners of Bristol Glass blame the current crisis in the Middle East and manufacturing expenses, but a bit like weaving and lacemaking, why lose the skills? We don’t want to see them in a museum.Make it a life business for people who want to learn and who want to know how to make something of quality.

We have lost so many skills, and yet we want people to live fulfilled lives and not be enslaved in monthly expenses that without good employment many cannot afford.

The politicians are media people who do not know how to “make” anything except “hot air”. They say they work hard , but they are lazy people who alienate others and who want “easy” money. This needs to stop. We want Blue Glass!

Namaste and Thank you for Reading.🙏