Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 10-10-2024 — World Day Against the Death Penalty

10th October, 2024: World Day Against the Death Penalty.

It’s official: I still have the lurgy.

And feel I have a frog in my throat.

No, scrub that: I’ve got a hole bloody pond full!

Ouch!

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Something I know has been mentioned on Radio 4’s Today programme … ?

Is that, last night, BBC Four aired the 1984 made for TV film, Threads.

Something I reviewed, last year.

And still feel is possibly the most powerful, bleak, and terrifying, film I’ve ever seen.

I’m still going to suggest you watch it: it’s on iPlayer, and the blu-ray is on the UK, US and Spanish branches of Amazon.

It’s worth watching … but won’t be for everyone.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 16-12-16: Hangin’ Around …

Hmmm … 

Looks like there’s another strike on Southern Railways.

Again … !

They’re striking, so you know, about who exactly should close the train doors: guards, or drivers.

I have to admit, I’m … caught.

On the one hand?

I’m sympathetic to workers wanting a better deal.

On the other?

I think the union’s claim that the strike’s are about safety are a load of old twaddle.

I travel to Chelmsford by train, don’t forget: where the drivers close the train doors, after receiving a signal from a member of station staff.

Either way … ?

Were I a passenger on one of the affected routes, I’d be fuming at the delays.

To put it mildly.

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Death In Beijing …

Which is what happened, this morning, according to the news …

British man, Akmal Shaikh, was executed by lethal injection, the Chinese government, on drug smuggling charges.

And I’m feeling fairly mixed.

On the one hand, the death sentence is one of those emotional things: one with both supporters, and people against it.

I’m with the latter, on the whole: I don’t believe two wrongs make a right.

And, in this case, what makes it worse is that Mr Shaikh has a serious form of Bipolar Disorder, what used to be called Manic Depression.

No, I’m not condoning China’s execution of a very vulnerable person.

But I am wondering if anyone’s thought to also condemn the criminals who — whoever and where-ever they are — who are equally complicit it Akmal Shaikh’s death by government.

Just a thought.