For information, there are male, female and transsexual Freemasons, and they welcome all religions too.

It is of course a philosophical question, encompassing concepts such as free will, as to how blame for people’s actions can truly be apportioned, and whether perverts, murderers and other serious criminals can be considered ‘victims’ or ‘afflicted’ in their own right. The leftist argument might be put forth along the lines of how nobody would ‘choose’ to be a psychopath, schizophrenic, paedophile, etc, and these conditions are causal factors in the urges to commit unspeakable acts.

I got into an argument with these gormless hard left hippies in the pub the other week, in which the fallout I was told by my mate who runs the place was me being tagged a ‘racist’. My racist act? Having the gall to point out that Arch-Martyr Floyd was actually a scumbag, and to call into question those who’d vandalise a statue of Churchill in their anti-racism cause. They played the whole, “Poor lamb Georgie boy, addicted to drugs he was, he had a sickness” card. And my response to that is also a sensible place to draw the line between ‘victim’ and villain, and address the philosophical debate: how sorry would you feel if he’d put a gun to your mother’s pregnant belly to rob her? Sympathy for people ‘wiv fings rong wiv em’ goes right out the window when they molest, kill or maim someone you care about.

I know what you mean. Those we’re dealing with invent new illnesses or disabilities simply to draw attention to themselves or to explain being weird. The most popular at the moment seems to be ‘neurodivergent’. Which can be used to explain throwing a Molotov cocktail or just being a lazy sod.

I didn’t know that about Marx. It’s not the sort of thing his followers boast about.

I’m also reminded of my postgraduate days when I’d invigilate exams for dyslexic students, reading the questions to them when requested. Now I believe in supporting people with conditions and disabilities to the fullest, and giving them every opportunity to be the best they can be, but if someone can’t read an exam question, perhaps academia ain’t for them. To shoehorn such individuals into it, just erodes standards.

My brother is brain damaged, and he is just that, disabled. Not ‘differently-abled’, alternatively-minded, or any other whacky euphemisms these types could conjure given the chance. He’s disabled, and needs and deserves the care and provisions to allow him to live the best quality of life possible with his condition. To label him as anything else is a step on the road to doing him a disservice in my book.

There seems to be a movement in general in society towards a place whereby nobody is allowed to be described as having anything wrong with them. The pendulum has shifted away from say, homosexuals being considered as mentally ill and Black Africans as less than human, rightly so of course, all the way through to talk of ‘neurotypicals’ and the ‘differently-abled’. At least it’s an impression I get.

Socialism: fighting for the female penis. How did we get to this? It reminds me of how in the 1850s socialism was taken over by fanatics for phrenology. Karl Marx was a true believer.

sounds like a “must ” for me ! Must avoid it at all costs. The nutjobs have really taken over the asylum. Best advice – tow it out into the middle of the Bristol Channel, equidistant say between the Haven and Hartland Point, and sink it with all the weirdos on board.

The headline speakers are Donal Whelan of Cowbridge who runs a music mixing business and claims to be popular in Mumbai, Katie Gallogly Swan who lives in London but sits on something called the board of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group after she graduated in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, Sam Ward who was a Green Party candidate in Derby, and Duncan Fisher who moved to Crickhowell from London in 2015 and is into regenerative farming and associate of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action.

What has this got to do with independence, or Wales for that matter?

Talk to your dad Llew bach, the old man has a wealth of knowhow that you should not be too proud to tap into.