Sep
23
2018
One of the first iconic experiments in science was Newton’s shining light through a prism. He sported his oak at Cambridge (for it is not concordant with the honour of an ancient university to use so banal a phrase...
Sep
15
2018
In the wake of Jimmy Anderson’s record breaking 564 test wickets he was described by Alastair Cook as England’s greatest ever cricketer. We may doubt that in any case incommensurable comparison. To start with more test matches are played...
Sep
04
2018
I’m so disappointed by feminism. I had thought that surely if women had more power there would be a saner, more rational, a less selfish and more caring world. But women in public life are proving themselves to be...
Aug
31
2018
What would you do if all the prophets were telling you there is a great flood coming but then in the last ten years more oil has been discovered in the Permian basin in Texas than there is in...
Aug
28
2018
There is no question that we should all be eating less meat. Or is it better to eat no meat? The greatest advantage of being a vegan is that it takes much less land to feed a vegan than...
Aug
23
2018
To retrace our steps to the air of heaven…
From Virgil. The Sybil warns Aeneas to think carefully before he journeys to the underworld –
The way downward is easy from Avernus
Black Dis’s door stands open night and day
Bu to retrace...
Aug
14
2018
My friend Robert has sent me an article by Daniel Hannan (Brexit for the thinking man Hannan) called ‘From Adam Smith onwards classical liberals have known that capitalism makes people less selfish”. You could have fooled me. It comes with a...
Jul
31
2018
Adam Smith, Daniel Hannan and Mrs Thatcher
My friend Robert has sent me an article by Daniel Hannan (Brexit for the thinking man Hannan) called ‘From Adam Smith onwards classical liberals have known that capitalism makes people less selfish”. You could have...