8th April 2017 — Return of the Musings

So Daily Musings returns after a five day break. My readers, all three of them, might be wondering what I was doing.

Nothing too saucy to be honest. If you know, you know.

So let’s get straight into it.

The Church of England has rejected plans to increase grammar schools.

Now, I disagree. Both that they made the statement and the statement itself. The CofE and any other organised religion has no place in political debate. I’m a firm believer in secularism.

Religion and politics need to be separate as when they’re mixed, things go downhill very quickly. It’s also undemocratic, why should one religious body have a role but not others? And then if you include all others, are you going to include joke religions, such as Jediism? How do you insure it’s done proportionally. I believe a modern, forward thinking democracy must be secular.

From a spiritual point of view, religion is between God and the individual. No need to get the government involved.

As for the comments itself. The CofE rejects it as it caters only for “high achievers”. Like I’ve mentioned before so do sets for English and Maths, but so do grades. By that logic we should get rid of A* grades and A grades and first class degrees. The problem that people claim it will cause exists anyway.

Donald Trump has responded to the chemical attack by bombing a Syrian Government base.

Whether or not this was the right thing to do is a whole different debate and one that would best be focused upon in a separate article.

But Trump’s opponents are criticising him for it, despite Hillary Clinton’s willingness to do the same during her Presidential campaign and hours before the President pulled the trigger. They have no leg to stand on.

Neither has Trump. He told the world he wouldn’t do it. He presented himself as isolationist. This is a gesture to show himself as strong and shirk of the Russia allegations. But he’s lied. The anti-establishment candidate has made an established like move. This is a complete mess.

As are calls for a no-fly zone over Syria. It may work in principle, but say Russia doesn’t listen to it? What happens then? To police it someone would have to shoot down those planes, meaning there are calls for direct war with the Russian Federation over Syria. Like it or not, Putin has made the greatest contribution into defeating the rebels, both the moderate ones or more extreme ones.

This is the weekend of the Grand National. People criticise greyhound racing as barbaric like I have mentioned before. There have been no calls that I’ve seen for the horse racing to be stopped, people just accept it.

But if the greyhound racing is unethical, surely horse racing is worse. Horses are whipped. The only difference is horse racing tends to more popular with the upper and middle classes and greyhounds with the working classes. If one is unethical, so is the other. It’s classical classism.