New Agenda on Sunday. is out! Edition of 16 October 2016

Good morning everyone.

With thoughts of a particularly special friend in mind, I turn my attention to "Strictly Come Dancing". This show has everything. Underlying violence as Len Goodman fell out with Bruno Tonioli behind the scenes last week after Goodman narrowly avoided (again) Bruno's flailing arms and fists giving Goodman a black eye or fat lip during an animated Italian description of one of the contestants. Sexual intrigue with the usual speculation of will they, wont they, are they "getting it together" when the spotlights go off, or perhaps even while they are still on some cases. Racial tensions as one contestant was unexpectedly ejected from the show. Contestant Will Young waking out of the show, "for personal reasons". Differences between the voting audience, the contestants and the judges adds a bit of spice to the proceedings as the obligatory token contestant marches on to the next round (remember Anne Widdecombe or Dom Littlewood or Gregg Wallace or even John Sargeant), Strictly Come Dancing is a complete microcosm of life which I am sure gives great pleasure to many people. It is therefore a particular pity for me that I am washing my hair whenever the show happens to be on and consequently I always miss it !

Another name on a very long list of "celebrities" who have passed away this year.

I have not watched Coronation Street for many years, but I remember "Hilda" and the flying ducks on the wall.
Not on my list of favourite programmes, but Jean Alexander, real name Jean Hodgkinson) was certainly a "character".
October 1926 - October 2016 R I P.

More revelations this week about Donald Trump and his totally unacceptable attitudes and behaviour towards women. The absolutely staggering thing is that some people still defend Trump and support him, and even more incredibly, according to reports in the USA, he could still become President! The mind boggles.

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The "MoneySupermarket" advertisement on our television screens, strangely appearing usually after the "watershed" continues to attract criticism and complaints. You must have seen the grotesque images of men wearing hot pants and high heels, the "strutters" confronting the "builders" in a "dance routine" in a car park. This series of "adverts" is obscene and should be removed from public view. The "authorities" should also consider prosecutions under the Obscene Publications acts.

Police at the 1984 Battle of Orgreave were told to use 'as much force as possible' against striking miners, a former officer has claimed.

A Judge led Public Inquiry is long overdue. It took 27 years for the truth of Hillsborough to be revealed. What took place at Orgreave on 18th June 1984, and the events preceding that day, have been wrapped in a conspiracy of silence by the police and politicians for far too long.

Getting colder !!

Have a nice week

John

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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