What is toxic masculinity? We argue the milieu which gave birth to this phrase is one of toxic political correctness where every term is made toxic by association. In other words nothing linked to political correctness is non toxic because it destroys structure and hierarchy and therefore balance of the order of society and aims to raise to the ground anything functional under the guise of the assumption of corruption. We also discuss that Brexit is better than becoming an Islamic European hybrid and is better than using tax payers money to subsidise immigrants working for minimum wage for large corporations which is not a living wage and driving out of those jobs the real British citizens. Brexit will address this problem of supply and demand and redress that imbalance so wages have to go up, people can then have a living wage , there will be less unemployed and those who are working will not need state subsidies. In the meantime the UK will be fine as the Commonwealth is a larger trading block than Europe and London is still the centre of finance. But democracy is getting in the way of common sense. It destroyed ancient Greece and being the birthplace of political correctness is busy leveling Western civilization until someone else comes and takes us over with stronger identity and organisation. It won't be hard. The only thing keeping us in our place so far is our heritage.

Cannabis is on a roll of good will and positivity with billions of pounds of private equity money being poured into its production and research. Yet just like alcohol , although cannabis can have a calming effect it has been linked to a doubling of schizophrenia in Washington State since it was legalized as well as Finland and Denmark. Murders violence and suicide have also increased similarly. We know that cannabis smoked by teen-agers causes structural changes in the brain and in everyone causes deficits in cognition and perception that make it hard to multitask and judge distances. In addition Cannabis is many times more potent than it was in the 1970s. The equivalent of drinking 50% proof vodka. Yet how can we not legalise it? We discuss evidence for and against. We also take a look at Europe and the failings with democracy as described by the ex Prime minister of Greece Mr George Papandreou whom one of us met recently and what can be done to address this. Finally is grumpiness good for you? Of course not. But neither is baseless optimism. Be realistic and whatever you do , do positively.

2018 was the year of the pay gaps and the last of the year is the race pay gap which is larger than the gender pay gap. We caution against knee jerk conclusions as the reasons are bound to be multifactorial. The gender pay gap for instance is mainly due to differences in behaviour between men and women. Similarly New Year's resolutions with sudden large virtuous changes are too big a leap to navigate safely and reliably. They are an example of goal setting which are illusionary needs and as such are vested with fear of failure, stress and avoidance , disaster if you fail as well as anticlimax if you succeed. Rather changes need to be small and incremental, thus many small changes leading to a much larger sustainable change over time. Finally what do Jean-Claude Junker and Donald Trump have in common? Listen and find out.

Christmas is here but where is the Christmas Spirit? The stock market has none if it's customary seasonal sparkle and instead is in free fall. Media obsesses about lip reading Jeremy Corbyn who's comment if it had used the word 'man' instead of 'woman' would have remained nestled in obscurity instead of being exhumed by the crane of political correctness. Furthermore is Britain resting on imaginary laurels of having been a super power and is this preventing this once fiercely proud nation from rebuilding it's identity and success once more? Sale time round Christmas and a feeding frenzy of materialism actually does little to rebuild family and community. Self obsession needs to be replaced by care for others. For instance ,are millionaires happy? Apparently only if they double their money. No mention of family or community. Yet most of us aspire to their status. Merry Christmas!

We ask whether society and within that the human species is continuing to evolve or have we hit our sell by date and are gradually beginning to overheat and dissolve back into the primordial soup of creation from which the next civilisation or life form will emerge. As such we discuss signs and symptoms that this may it may not be occurring. We conclude that many signs of modern progress are in fact the first fraying of our lifespans as a species.

We discuss that our human behaviour has a major influence via genetics through evolution so that for hundreds of millions of years most living organisms are pack animals and furthermore hierarchical. We explain how epigenetics can influence the behaviour of one generation from actions and experience of the previous and we discuss biological differences between men and women and how these match most of what is seen in nature. Political correctness is the ignorance and arrogance to assume humans are more than they are and not intimately linked to all life forms on the planet where we have to live and harmoniously coexist. This ignorance is dangerous and destructive to structure of everyone and everything.

Why are most decisions wrong? And when we mean decisions we mean those made by individuals, corporations or politicians. The reason is that logic is a rare companion to decisions as humans are hard wired to think and respond to emotions as that was the quickest way of surviving for cavemen. All leaders going back to the dawn of time are self serving liabilities which is one reason no civilisation has stood the test of time. It is why all corporations fail. Apple and Microsoft will one day be consigned to history. Even more dangerous to allow politicians to govern and manage finance or to try and impose a central identity to Europe. By definition it will all fail. Think China is successful and a future super power? They already have enormous debt, cities 90% empty and they are turning Vietnam and Africa into sweat shops to maintain their conpetitive edge with cheap labour . What can individuals do about it ? Start with small changes of self awareness. Think less what do I need to do and more what is the bigger picture and what do I choose to do to get it. Apply that to one small area of your life and build it up slowly.

The gap between rich and poor, haves and have nots is increasing and is also reflected in differences in life expectancy between rich and poor which is 10 years for men and 8 for women. Superimposed on this is the fact that women's lead in life expectancy over men is falling. Health is worsening as women smoke and drink more and suffer more diabetes and 1 in 8 children have mental health issues. We discuss the reasons for this and what can be done about it.

We discuss the real reason Brexit is being made difficult for the UK is not to make an example but because France and Germany need the British banking system as the third leg in a rickety stool propping up Europe. We discuss the how the economy has been miss managed since the credit crunch and what can be done to improve things. There is finally proof backing up our hypothesis that men and women all lie on an Asperger's spectrum with women grouped at the emotional end and men grouped at the Asperger's end with outliers of both sexes intermingled. We also discuss how democracy does not exist and that this politically correct democracy mostly prevents any rational planned governance at all leaving us with self serving performing clowns - with the rare exception.

11th November is Armistice Day, the way to end wars. Or was it? We discuss Thucydides Trap which refers to war being inevitable when one established power is met with a rising power. Indeed research shows that out of the last 16 examples of this war was the outcome of 12. The irony being that often it was not being actively sought by the major players but the result of a minor catalyst which snowballed. Perhaps this is a time to remember the importance of identity as members of our world, our country and our community.