http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/rss.asp/ The latest views, news and musings by Martin Baum en-gb http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/stoppress.asp?DocId=282 Seeker News was launched as an independent business and lifestyle website for Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset in early 2010. In early 2012 Seeker News made the move onto the printed page and is now a fortnightly tabloid newspaper 09/05/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=281 After Stuart Hall pleaded guilty for indecently assaulting 13 young girls, in another piece of tired journalism, Esther Rantzen writes how sick, revolted and angry she is. But after failing to speak out over Jimmy Savile, the same can be said of her. 08/05/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=280 Another day another soundbite and this time it's the turn of Justice Secretary Chris Grayling who's been on the media circuit talking about an end to a prisoner-friendly lifestyle for a return to a more disciplined and structured regime behind bars. 01/05/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=279 After his son was born in 2000, Tony Blair refused to say if he had allowed him to have the MMR jab, citing his right to family privacy. As an ordinary citizen then perhaps that would have been nobody's business but his own but, as Prime Minister, he had a duty to reveal if his son had been immunised. That refusal to do so can now be attributed as a contributory factor behind this new measles epidemic. 24/04/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=278 Since the death of Margaret Thatcher, her political opponents and dissenters claim she was more evil than Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Chairman Mao, Saddam Hussein and Idi Amin. Yet given how Stalin was responsible for 20 million deaths, Hitler 15 million, Mao 10 million, Saddam Hussein 1 million and Amin 400,000, it's clear that stupidity knows no bounds. 17/04/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=277 Despite an agenda that supposedly demanded a greater respect for women in the 21^st century, Labour's reaction in celebrating yesterday's death of Margaret Thatcher goes against that idyll. In fact it shows they and their supporters are nothing more than hypocritical and ignorant. 09/04/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=276 Although still to be ratified by the euro zone, it's been agreed for Cyprus to receive a 10 billion euro loan with an interest rate of 2.5 percent. However, should the Cypriots refuse this ‘all or nothing' bailout then the country will effectively be made bankrupt, courtesy of the EU. 02/04/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=275 There doesn't seem to be an end to the fiscal incompetence meted out by so-called ‘experts' and especially so in the Eurozone. No matter that their collective financial ineptitude has already inflicted economic disaster on Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece, the fact that Cyprus now joins their number only confirms the fact that they don't have a clue what they're doing 19/03/2013 http://www.martinbaum.co.uk/viewfromthehut.asp?DocId=274 On Monday yet another so–called ‘esteemed' politician was sentenced in the name of vanity while his ex-wife was jailed for an act of vengeance that went wrong. Yet for all their so-called intelligence and academic brilliance that set them apart from everyone else, clearly – as they begin their sentences - they are anything but. 13/03/2013