Thursday 28 April 2022

DYING TO KNOW WHY ONLY NOW HAS JOHNSON'S GOVERNMENT BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL ACTIONS IN THE PANDEMIC

Listening to the news last night was both satisfying and horrible. I was content that the High Court yesterday found the Government acted unlawfully when it ordered the discharge of patients from hospital into care homes - an act that led to the deaths of around 20,000 of our citizens in those care homes. This I knew already. And I was horrified that these men and women we have trusted with our government should be guilty of social murder on such a scale. 



Dying to Know - signed copies available in Penzance in The Edge of the World bookshop


My book - Dying to Know - Running through a Pandemic - was published at the end of February. It 

contains a historically accurate account of what happened in the first year of the Coronavirus Pandemic, 

in 2020 - and much else. It nails Johnson and Cummings as the architects of an appallingly planned 

policy that pursued the goal of achieving herd immunity. Do please read it. It only costs a tenner - and 

Wednesday 13 April 2022

AVAAZ - POINTING THE WAY TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM EXTINCTION

 This email from Avaaz seemed important enough to save and share as a blogpost. The perspective is very powerful.

Hi! This is one of the most important moments to help end the extinction crisis the world has ever seen. No exaggeration. A new global deal to save nature could be signed in 5 months -- but as Avaaz staff get back from the latest negotiations, there’s still massive campaigning and advocacy work needed to ensure this treaty can really save nature -- and humanity. We only have 5 months to do it -- and with your support we can double our efforts.

Avaaz is 100% powered by individual donations like yours -- chip in a weekly amount below, or click here to make a one-time donation. Thank you, deeply, from all of us at Avaaz.

THE GOOD LAW PROJECT ARE BEHIND THE JOHNSONS AND SUNAK BEING FOUND GUILTY

 The Johnsons - husband and wife - and Sunak are guilty of contempt of British law and the British people. Here is the story of how they were brought to justice by the Good Law Project (Please excuse the layout problems - I don't think they get in the way of the message and I can't yet solve them).


"Dear Rob,

Lawyers aren’t great believers. We spend our lives unravelling the carefully constructed lies of others. And it makes the most terrible cynics of even the sweetest natured of us. But there are a few things we do believe in - and are prepared to fight for. And one of them is the idea that the law is just and fair.





That’s why, for so much of the legal profession, it was agonising to watch the Met ignore evidence of criminality at Number 10 and Number 11. We knew others had been fined for breaking the lockdown rules. We knew the terrible sacrifices that so many families had made - people who had watched their

Sunday 10 April 2022

"DYING TO KNOW - RUNNING THROUGH A PANDEMIC" - READ ALL ABOUT MY LATEST BOOK

 My latest book was published by Troubador/Matador on February 28, six weeks ago. The title is "Dying to Know - Running through a Pandemic". If you appreciated my first book - "The Road to Corbyn" (Matador, 2016) - you will relish this new book. Even if you did not, my latest literary venture is still a worthwhile read.

A copy can be ordered direct from the publishers using this link here. The book is priced at £9.99.

You can get a signed copy from me direct for £11.50, including postage and packing, using Paypal or bank transfer. My email is robdonovan@waitrose.com.

Here is a taste of the contents - the image of the front cover:



This is my photograph from the summit of Little Trevalgan, 1.75 miles from our home in St Ives, looking towards the church of St. John's with part of my running circuit visible on the bottom-right.   



And here in this image of the front and back covers is a taste of what you will find inside its 150 pages. As I wrote the book, I had two readers - Jessica Raber in the USA and Ingrid Helmer in The Netherlands - who