Life's Tenacity: Thriving in the Harshest Climates

  Adults/ Over 21 Edition 🎬 The Story Behind the Numbers There are 650 seats in the House of Commons . The Labour Party has secured a large majority of them — giving them strong control of the Commons. Several smaller parties represent specific nations or regions ( Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland ) or particular ideologies ( Greens, Reform ). Independents also play a role — though their numbers are much smaller, their local presence or specific issues can matter. Some parties (e.g., Sinn Féin ) win seats but do not take them up, which affects the voting or active size of the Commons.  ✅ Why this matters The party with the most MPs becomes the government. In this case: Labour. The size of each party influences how easily laws can pass: a big majority means fewer obstacles. Smaller parties’ strength gives context to regional/national politics (e.g., Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland). Knowing the count helps understand the balance of power — ...

What If the London Eye Is a Modern Cosmogram — a Stargate Hidden in Plain Sight? What if the great wheel turning over the Thames were never merely a Ferris wheel? What if the London Eye, that rotating emblem of 21st-century civic optimism, were also a modern cosmogram — a structure whose geometry, placement, and symbolism re-enact patterns older than recorded history? 1. The Circle Beside the Water Across civilizations, sacred and cosmological sites cluster near rivers. The Ganges cradles Varanasi ; the Nile mirrors Luxor ; the Thames curves past Westminster . Water, the oldest reflective surface, is the archetypal threshold: both mirror and membrane. To place a vast, illuminated circle beside a river is to echo the cosmic wheel turning over the abyss — a motif repeated from Hindu mandalas to Norse cosmology . Could it be coincidence that London’s most conspicuous modern landmark repeats this ancient pairing — circle and current, sky and reflection? Or is it that when archite...

Human Potential There are truths that cannot be shouted.  Only whispered. Some technologies—some vehicles—require more than engineering.  They require presence. Consciousness.  Not the kind we measure in labs, but the kind that dreams in symbols, moves through dimensions, and remembers things before birth. Among us walk those who glick like reptiles, effortlessly, instinctively.  They’ve done so since babyhood.  They are not anomalies.  They are signals. Recent arrivals. Starseeds.  Not all will recognize themselves. But some already do. Others dream of maneuvering crafts with thought alone. They wake disoriented, unsure if it was a dream or a memory. This may be soul atrophy.  Or it may be soul training. Either way, it points to something dormant stirring. I hesitate to use the word spiritual. We are all spirits. But when certain genes—long silent—begin to sing again, our technology will look like magic.  Not because it defies physics, but b...

Here’s a school of thought in simple terms: 1. China knows a clash is likely — but not yet. Beijing’s long-term planners (especially under Xi Jinping ) view the U.S. as both the main obstacle and main benchmark . They believe China is on an inevitable rise, while the U.S. is in slow decline — but they also know that an open confrontation too soon would be disastrous. So for now, China is buying time: building strength, deepening global influence, and avoiding direct military conflict. 2. Xi’s confidence is rooted in a civilizational mindset . Xi often speaks of China as a 5,000-year-old civilization-state that is reclaiming its rightful place in history — not just a country competing for power.  From that worldview, engaging with the U.S. on equal or subordinate terms feels beneath China’s dignity.   This is why Xi avoids “ charm offensives ” or warm personal diplomacy with U.S. leaders; he prefers to project calm strength, patience, and inevitability. Have you seen S...

  At a recent Reform UK meeting in Glasgow , a local party member stood up and said plainly: “For illegal immigration, yes — put them in camps and deport them. They shouldn’t be here.” When journalists asked the party for clarification, Reform UK replied that it had “nothing further to add.” That silence is not neutrality. It is complicity. This was not a private slip or a misquote. It was a rare, public window into what is being normalised inside parts of the British right. The language of “camps” — once confined to the far-fringe — is now spoken in town halls and branch meetings, without shame and without rebuke. What is at stake here is not only immigration policy but Britain’s moral boundaries. When the idea of locking human beings in camps is aired as an acceptable “solution,” the danger is not merely that it could happen — but that it begins to sound reasonable. The moral corrosion beneath the rhetoric Scotland has long seen itself as a country of refuge: from the ...