Archbishop Desmond Tutu RIP: Apartheid needed people like Desmond Tutu, to bolster resistance while men like Nelson Mandela were imprisoned in Robben Island for 27 years… Civil Rights breaches in 1960’s Northern Ireland shared a lot with the effects of Apartheid but the divide from Ireland Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and so many more brought these people together with Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu. Detente in the true sense of the word.

Africa Tutu: The anti-apartheid hero who never stopped fighting for ‘Rainbow Nation’ Reuters Dec 26, (Reuters) – “Like falling in

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Putin tells the West that Ukraine will not join NATO. For some reason I don’t hear President Joe Biden, the most powerful man in the world, (maybe he is having a Christmas siesta!) Nord Stream 2…we urgently need that oil and gas, as promised, from Russia. Gambling and detente is dangerous especially in winter in Europe. Oil went up 800% in one day and settled back at 400% in one day; Europe, UK, we can’t handle this, we are too dependent on fossil fuels from neighbours and we all know “wind” ie renewables is lower than expected this year!