The radio’s playing “You’ve Got Your Troubles. I’ve Got Mine” by The Fortunes. Reading the news, what a stark portrayal of how some normally sensible, caring people are acting completely out of character. In the 1926 General Strike, which lasted a week, miners had their appalling wages of £6 reduced to £3. But beware soaring inflation. We don’t want to get like 1930s Germany, where you needed a wheelbarrow full of Deutschmarks to buy bread. Why aren’t today’s media highlighting all those (non-public-sector) people, who are struggling without any help or homeless, disabled or relying on food banks? And yet ordinary people can be kind, helping that hard up Bradford self-employed father by donating £50k to his daughter’s school to provide free school dinners for her and her class mates, right up to next summer.Tonight the festival of Chanukah begins, its message lasting the same length as the 1926 General Strike. Let its light reflect on the true goodness of people. Forget The Fortunes and selfishness. A far better song is ‘Try A Little Kindness. Shine Your Light For Everyone to See,’ by Glen Campbell.
Season’s Greetings to all my readers!
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