David Bell

1 week ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | David Bell

Saving the Dreamers from the Sea. A couple of decades ago in the state of Victoria, Australia, the public health fraternity considered the advisability of banning or regulating rock fishing. The authoritarian response to Covid-19 in the same place two decades later was not coincidental. Both stem from a fundamental human desire to control others – to force dictates on them for their own good.

3 weeks ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | David Bell

History is a series of variations on basic feudalism, with limited exceptions during which serfs threw off the worst of their shackles for some years in the sun, before being pilloried and stood on once more. Wealth is always most effectively accumulated through the indentured labor of others, so indenturing will remain the default.

2 months ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | David Bell |Programme Head

What War MeansMy mother once told me how my father still woke up screaming in the night years after I was born, decades after the Second World War (WWII) ended. I had not known – probably like most children of those who fought. For him, it was visions of his friends going down in burning aircraft – other bombers of his squadron off north Australia – and to be helpless, watching, as they burnt and fell. Few born after that war could really appreciate what their fathers, and mothers, went through.

Oct 25, 2024 | dailytelegraph.co.nz | David Bell |Programme Head

The commercial imperative to extract money from human bodies is playing havoc with medical education, and the body of knowledge through which the medical professions operate. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of vaccines, and their place in determining the length of our lives. The History of Living LongerAs a medical student, I was taught that the reason we in wealthy countries now live far longer than our forebears was improvements in living conditions, sanitation, and nutrition.

Oct 5, 2024 | dailytelegraph.co.nz | David Bell |Programme Head

Words can harm. The childhood saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is obviously untrue. Words bring ruin and despair, drive people to suicide, and foment massacres and war. They are used to justify the enslavement of nations, and the genocide of entire ethnic groups. This is exactly why we must all, always, be free to speak them. In a perfect world, lies and deceit would not exist. We would have no reason to fear the spoken word.