Government, BBC, Culture wars and Lineker.

The most important thing to realise is that the BBC is simply the monkey not the organ grinder. The government is the organ grinder.

The government has applied political pressure to create division and a distraction. But in doing so they have not only exposed the blackness at their own heart they have created a platform which shows how many people dislike this government's divisive rhetoric.

They think culture wars will get them re-elected. I think this Lineker episode exposes the cul de sac that the tories are fast heading down.

In the cold light of the voting booth what will come to people's minds? Culture wars? Or energy bills? Rising rent/mortgages? Energy bills? High food bills? 9Struggling to get a doctor's appointment or access to a dentist? That long wait for treatment on the NHS? Pension moving ever farther away? The struggle to find a job? The worry about your job security due to economic mismanagement?

I think any culture war is going to be very low on the list. 

The local elections in May will show where things are on the list.

Does your mind ever wonder to the bigger picture?

It's easy to get caught in the immediate stuff like the Tory Brexit or the cost of living crisis.

Does your mind ever wonder to the bigger picture? By bigger picture I mean the biggest picture. Mine does.

The human race. Where are we going? The answer to me cannot be separated from where we came from.

Everything we know including ourselves is made of matter. Matter that was created in the birth of stars.

In other words we are born of the stars. Our destiny, if we are to survive as a race, lies one way or another in the stars.

One likely possibility is that we will be stupid enough to burn through all the natural resources on our planet. Therefore we will have to journey to the stars to find another planet for human life to continue.

Even if this scenario, or another scenario, does not occur one day our sun, like all stars, will burnout and explode. Resulting in the same journey to the stars, beforehand, to find another planet if we are to survive as a race.

Our journey as a human race therefore started in the stars and unavoidably will end in the stars.