Hello

So what am I doing with a new blog with an incredibly silly, long title?

Well, it's one dedicated exclusively to thoughts on peace - and I wouldn't normally have done it but I agreed to help out the wonderful EarthActivists team on Twitter and I wouldn't mind adding my own thoughts to the mix. Simply searching for "peace" on startpage doesn't give you that many good results, for example, and as someone who likes to read and try my hand at analysis I thought "Why not give thinking about peace a go"? It's a subject close to my heart; learning about the atrocities of World War I when I was 13 turned me into a pacifist and as someone who wants to reduce suffering in the world, I cannot stand by and allow wars to happen. I cannot pay lip-service to the idea of peace and yet support whichever war our lying politicians are angling for. I cannot cheer as people murder their fellow beings and scar entire communities for generations.

And so I try and do my bit. But how? I'm no politician; I can't stand up in the House of Commons and say "I don't want war". I can't stand for election either - no-one would vote for me!

I can still try and do something, though: I can protest, even if only as an individual. I can write letters to MPs, even if they go unanswered or ignored. And I can do something I do decently - which is write and write and write, in the hope that I can get the message of world peace out to other people.

So here I am. My goal, as someone passionate about world peace, is to get out a thought a day in the hope that someone out there's listening. I hope I'm not too egotistical; indeed, I do this not for myself - I don't have to convince myself that peace is a good thing - but for others, so that some day we will all work together for a world without war.