Huw Edwards

The gift of lighting up the dark The "skill psychologically of lighting up the dark" can be described as resilience and learned optimism, which involves acknowledging difficult emotions (the "darkness") while actively cultivating hope and developing practical skills to navigate challenges and promote well-being. This concept draws on various psychological principles, including Jungian psychology and positive psychology.  Key Psychological Concepts Balance of Opposites (Jungian Psychology): Psychologist Carl Jung noted that light and darkness coexist; one cannot exist without the other.

The gift of lighting up the dark

The "skill psychologically of lighting up the dark" can be described as resilience and learned optimism, which involves acknowledging difficult emotions (the "darkness") while actively cultivating hope and developing practical skills to navigate challenges and…

The poor will always have you The phrase, "The poor will always have you," is an inversion of a well-known quote from the New Testament of the Bible, which in modern translations generally reads, "The poor you will always have with you".  This statement is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew (26:11), Mark (14:7), and John (12:8), and is part of Jesus' response to his disciples when they object to a woman anointing him with expensive perfume that could have been sold to help the poor.

The poor will always have you

The phrase, "The poor will always have you," is an inversion of a well-known quote from the New Testament of the Bible, which in modern translations generally reads, "The poor you will always have with you".  This statement is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew…

How to Identify Your Political Bias Effectively

Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between? Determining your political bias involves a combination of self-reflection, using structured assessment tools, and being critically aware of your information sources. 1.…

Why Learning from Mistakes is Crucial A repeated mistake is like running around on a giant hamster wheel, exhausted and weary not knowing how to step off the darn thing or where the stop button is or not knowing when or how to press the stop button or how or when to step off. Repeating the same mistakes again and again while not learning a thing from them is defiantly a mad idea!

Why Learning from Mistakes is Crucial

A repeated mistake is like running around on a giant hamster wheel, exhausted and weary not knowing how to step off the darn thing or where the stop button is or not knowing when or how to press the stop button or how or when to step off. Repeating the same…

Karaoke Nights: Finding Connection Through Music Clocks went back by an hour over the weekend so its now gone 10pm instead off 11pm on Monday night. It feels more like a Sunday night as I had the day off today. I went out to a city called Plymouth to a bar called Walkabout to sing Karaoke with some friends on Sunday. I hope we all had a good night and got up and sang our little hearts out.

Karaoke Nights: Finding Connection Through Music

Clocks went back by an hour over the weekend so its now gone 10pm instead off 11pm on Monday night. It feels more like a Sunday night as I had the day off today. I went out to a city called Plymouth to a bar called Walkabout to sing Karaoke with…

Scientists have confirmed that Schizophrenia “voices” are the brain mishearing its own thoughts In late October 2025, researchers from UNSW Sydney published a study providing the strongest evidence yet for the long-held theory that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia result from the brain misinterpreting its own inner speech. Using brainwave analysis, the study showed that the brains of people experiencing hallucinations reacted to their own internal monologue as if it were an external voice. …

Scientists have confirmed that Schizophrenia “voices” are the brain mishearing its own thoughts

In late October 2025, researchers from UNSW Sydney published a study providing the strongest evidence yet for the long-held theory that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia result from the brain…

The Risks of Buying on Facebook: My Experience For those of us that use Facebook to stay in touch with friends and family through it, you might have also noticed that there are a lot of adverts these days appearing on your screen on Facebook, advertised all sorts of things fronted by people and business that have set up pages to pay Facebook to advertise their products on. …

The Risks of Buying on Facebook: My Experience

For those of us that use Facebook to stay in touch with friends and family through it, you might have also noticed that there are a lot of adverts these days appearing on your screen on Facebook, advertised all sorts of things fronted by people and…

Trump is waging a personal war on our world and us In real-time with continued unquenchable thirst to manipulation freedoms and thoughts by working to silencing the press that disagree with him or shut down comedians that make fun of him. Corporation America, the once big belly of the beast of free speech and freedom, now live in fear of Trump and that's exactly how he wants it and that's the game he continues to play and he is winning said game.

Trump is waging a personal war on our world and us

In real-time with continued unquenchable thirst to manipulation freedoms and thoughts by working to silencing the press that disagree with him or shut down comedians that make fun of him. Corporation America, the once big belly of the beast of…

Race hate has never been slain it has only been sleeping Modern fascism, is a post-WWII far-right, ultranationalist ideology that adapts classic fascist characteristics like authoritarianism, a cult of the leader, and aggressive nationalism to modern contexts, incorporating contemporary tools such as social media and identity politics to promote xenophobia, racial nationalism, and often a perception of national decline. While rejecting the overt totalitarianism of historical fascism, neo-fascism shares a fundamental distrust of democracy, liberalism, and pluralism, aiming to create a unified, ethnically homogenous nation-state through populism and the suppression of opposition. 

Race hate has never been slain it has only been sleeping

Modern fascism, is a post-WWII far-right, ultranationalist ideology that adapts classic fascist characteristics like authoritarianism, a cult of the leader, and aggressive nationalism to modern contexts, incorporating contemporary tools such…

What if 24 hour satellite television news had existed in 1945? When Hitler invaded Poland and started World War 2 would the news stations have been beaming around the world his justification for going to war and would we have been relying on journalists cleared by or operating within the rules of what the Nazis deemed as appropriate to broadcast to 'inform' us of what is going on in Germany and the countries being conquered by the Nazi regime.

What if 24 hour satellite television news had existed in 1945?

When Hitler invaded Poland and started World War 2 would the news stations have been beaming around the world his justification for going to war and would we have been relying on journalists cleared by or operating within the rules of…

Trying to avoid Bitdefender’s antivirus autorenewal trap It's the most wonderful time of the year - oops no that's the wrong time, though the sun is shinning and the outdoors is warm and not to hot but its definitely not THAT time of the year. Instead it's antivirus renewal time for my PC or at least I am getting a lot of emails from Bitdefender telling me to renew my antivirus or sit back and let them automatically take out of my bank in September £80 (HOW MUCH).

Trying to avoid Bitdefender’s antivirus autorenewal trap

It's the most wonderful time of the year - oops no that's the wrong time, though the sun is shinning and the outdoors is warm and not to hot but its definitely not THAT time of the year. Instead it's antivirus renewal time for my PC or at…

Uncomfortable views in the news promoted as normal and yet anything but! Just watching the news on television tonight and this week it seems it is not currently trying to inform me, but to indoctrinate me. I’m no believer in the view that the news is all lies, but what it certainly is is opinionated and what it does have is an agenda. Top headline tonight on the TV is about criminal smuggling gangs getting immigrants to the UK.

Uncomfortable views in the news promoted as normal and yet anything but!

Just watching the news on television tonight and this week it seems it is not currently trying to inform me, but to indoctrinate me. I’m no believer in the view that the news is all lies, but what it certainly is is…

Reflecting on My Birthday: A Year of Change I did not want to do a lot on my birthday this year as I was minded to think of having lost my Dad at the beginning of the year. Normally on my birthday over the last few years I would go out for a meal with friends and last year went to a bar called the White Hart.

Reflecting on My Birthday: A Year of Change

I did not want to do a lot on my birthday this year as I was minded to think of having lost my Dad at the beginning of the year. Normally on my birthday over the last few years I would go out for a meal with friends and last year went to a bar called the…

Understanding Miracles and Their Implications So how did it come to me blogging about this – well with a considerable amount of thoughtful scepticism. I started thinking about who decides what is a miracle in today’s world and what does that say about all miracles and whether they have happened or not and whether that matters anyway! Simply put mainly according to AI’s interpretation on this issue (who would have believed a few years ago that AI would be attempting to teach a human on the divinity of a miracle, but here we are) a miracle is an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable (meaning capable of being explained) or understood by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.

Understanding Miracles and Their Implications

So how did it come to me blogging about this – well with a considerable amount of thoughtful scepticism. I started thinking about who decides what is a miracle in today’s world and what does that say about all miracles and whether they have happened or…

Little clip of Karaoke Huw I was out at my local bar in Exeter on Friday and I asked a friend to take a photo of me singing and she also caught a small clip of me singing a song for a few seconds and I thought I would post that clip up here as a memento of that night I was singing the Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice.

Little clip of Karaoke Huw

I was out at my local bar in Exeter on Friday and I asked a friend to take a photo of me singing and she also caught a small clip of me singing a song for a few seconds and I thought I would post that clip up here as a memento of that night I was singing the Blowers…

Israel’s broken clock If Israel dictates the terms of what is a just war in the Middle East at this moment in time across our media outlet’s, then our media outlets are wrong and in this particular circumstance are not telling the truth. The bombing of Iran by the US and Israel is a brutal distraction from the coordinated genocide of the people and country of Palestine.

Israel’s broken clock

If Israel dictates the terms of what is a just war in the Middle East at this moment in time across our media outlet’s, then our media outlets are wrong and in this particular circumstance are not telling the truth. The bombing of Iran by the US and Israel is a brutal…

The Gospel of the future according to Ai gurus According to those who preach about the importance of Ai some say it is THE future and one day Ai will do all jobs and humans will no longer be needed for work. Imagine in a utopian world, if this were true, we could all sit back relax pursue our own hobbies, dreams and leisure activities whilst a benevolent AI gently assisted and guided the human race along to follow our dreams and not just survive but thrive.

The Gospel of the future according to Ai gurus

According to those who preach about the importance of Ai some say it is THE future and one day Ai will do all jobs and humans will no longer be needed for work. Imagine in a utopian world, if this were true, we could all sit back relax pursue our own…

😍Weird is Wonderful 😍 I've never really wished to be normal, I often get confused by and fearful of those that express how normal they are and then start to say how different from their norm others that they hate are. The UK is really starting to have to consider the possibility that we could have a right wing Farage Reform government in place after the next general election cycle.

😍Weird is Wonderful 😍

I've never really wished to be normal, I often get confused by and fearful of those that express how normal they are and then start to say how different from their norm others that they hate are. The UK is really starting to have to consider the possibility that we could have…

Huw Edwards – The Singing Series! I don't know if you have seen these action figure designs yet anywhere on the internet or more specifically Facebook but people have been using AI to design there own action figures I had a go with Chat GPT. I used a template to fill out a description of what I wanted and then after a few minutes the design was created, very clever and lots of fun.

Huw Edwards – The Singing Series!

I don't know if you have seen these action figure designs yet anywhere on the internet or more specifically Facebook but people have been using AI to design there own action figures I had a go with Chat GPT. I used a template to fill out a description of what I…

Taking stock of my share of shares Holly sh*t what the feck just happened in my bank account it is leaking cash faster than a Trumpian Bull breaks ceramics in a China shop! Along time ago in a bank account far, far away I started to dabble in buying a type of UK bank account called an ISA (Individual Savings Account). ISAs are seen as a tax-efficient way to save and invest your money.

Taking stock of my share of shares

Holly sh*t what the feck just happened in my bank account it is leaking cash faster than a Trumpian Bull breaks ceramics in a China shop! Along time ago in a bank account far, far away I started to dabble in buying a type of UK bank account called an ISA…

 We need to talk about wealth and tax the rich It really is a taboo to talk about taxing the wealthy or super rich, let alone electing political officials that introduce such measures. Most people with millions and billions of pounds can not only afford to hire great minds and accountants to ensure they pay the bare minimum in taxes, they can also afford to fund political interests in both the left and right side of the mainstream political establishment to stand up and enforce a no tax policy for the super wealthy to such an extent that it is never mainstream enough political idea or policy that might be adopted by governments across the global mainstream of wealthy or developed economies and countries where such policies could truly save and enhance lives.  

 We need to talk about wealth and tax the rich

It really is a taboo to talk about taxing the wealthy or super rich, let alone electing political officials that introduce such measures. Most people with millions and billions of pounds can not only afford to hire great minds and accountants to…

Early springs of emotions due to my Da – Neil Edwards In memory of those gone but not forgotten, loved and not lost Today is 2 months to the day since my lovely father passed away and though I think often of him miss him and feel and know that he is no longer here – I do so in what I feel to be a fond farewell light and positive imprint of him on my mind and soul.

Early springs of emotions due to my Da – Neil Edwards

In memory of those gone but not forgotten, loved and not lost Today is 2 months to the day since my lovely father passed away and though I think often of him miss him and feel and know that he is no longer here – I do so in what I feel to be a…

Sláinte & Happy Paddy’s Day Dad This time last year me and Dad were on holiday in Ireland for St Patricks day, thanks to a bet that I won on the horse the day after Christmas 2023. It was an unexpected win for a number of reasons and so when the bet paid out I shared some of the money with my mum and dad as the money did not really feel like mine anyway.

Sláinte & Happy Paddy’s Day Dad

This time last year me and Dad were on holiday in Ireland for St Patricks day, thanks to a bet that I won on the horse the day after Christmas 2023. It was an unexpected win for a number of reasons and so when the bet paid out I shared some of the money with my mum…

Blocking the rivers of trade Stopping the flow of money & watching some rivers of finance run dry, all for an experiment that will fail and a crash and burn to the US economy. If we were still in George Orwell's 1984 novel then the great trade war has begun and if it was up to Trump no matter what damage he does he will be reporting this war as a victory.

Blocking the rivers of trade

Stopping the flow of money & watching some rivers of finance run dry, all for an experiment that will fail and a crash and burn to the US economy. If we were still in George Orwell's 1984 novel then the great trade war has begun and if it was up to Trump no matter what…

Dear friends and family of Neil Edwards So we said fairwell to Dad on Friday 7th March, his family would just like to say a huge thank you to all of you that have shown how much you care for him and us. Me, Shamen and mum have been so grateful for the love and support offered to us at this difficult time. It’s sometimes hard to make a call or show people, if you care due to already full up and busy lives, there is always something else in life to distract you that steels your time away.

Dear friends and family of Neil Edwards

So we said fairwell to Dad on Friday 7th March, his family would just like to say a huge thank you to all of you that have shown how much you care for him and us. Me, Shamen and mum have been so grateful for the love and support offered to us at this…

Oddschecker.com is it really worthy paying a subscription to have a bet? Next week is the Cheltenham horse racing festival in the UK – it is the BIG celebration of horse racing in the UK and for those that enjoy watching horse racing and having a punt and putting a bet on that is the week to do it. But there are so many horses at so many different odd to bet on that it’s very easy to not know which horses to bet on and see who will win and who will loose.

Oddschecker.com is it really worthy paying a subscription to have a bet?

Next week is the Cheltenham horse racing festival in the UK – it is the BIG celebration of horse racing in the UK and for those that enjoy watching horse racing and having a punt and putting a bet on that is the week to do…

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Make America Hate

Trump is an isolationist at heart. There are many things which Trump does not, cannot or has no will to understand when it comes to his world view and he views others as being weak or insignificant, if they do not think and feel the same as him and his outward reaction to those…

Trump’s Position: to embrace Putin over Zelensky

Trump is very attracted to Putin's style of political manoeuvrings and that suits Putin at present - he is also very much moving towards Putin while moving away from Zelensky. Russia will aim to play Trump and his cards for all he is worth until he…

Animals don’t behave like men

Quote by Richard George Adams Richard George Adams FRSL was an English novelist. He is best known for his debut novel Watership Down. Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published in 1972. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the…