Am I a mad doomster? Raving I hope. (ii) Wrong Questions

Am I a Mad Doomster?  Raving I hope (ii) Wrong Questions We are confused about climate change partly because the questions that might seem the obvious ones to ask in fact are not.  Of these there are two in particular. ...

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Last Words to a Dumb Friend

Last Words to a Dumb Friend Pet was never mourned as you Purrer of the spotless hue Plumy tail, and wistful gaze While you humoured our queer ways, Or outshrilled your morning callUp the stairs and through the hall...

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Hamilton Swift – Striker: The team meal

Ooh, Chelsea are stylish.   Oooh, they’re now are Chelsea.  Admiral Nelson are Chelsea.  Chelsea are so stylish they have half an avocado with chopped coriander leaves garnished with crème fraiche instead of oranges at half-time.  And what about Liverpool?  Can...

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Am I a mad doomster? I do hope so. (i) Who’s right?

I often fear that the future will be unimaginably terrible.  Like the aristocrats before the French Revolution we ignore the abundant warning signs  and party on.    But are such fears justified?  In some ways they are the more discomforting...

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Contemplation could be no more than sexual sublimation, however…

Perhaps I am flattering myself but I do not regard myself as a complete idiot.  By temperament, at least on one side of it, I am critical, not to say cynical.  A devoted Catholic,  I am well aware that...

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Hell is such an embarrassment for watery religious liberals

In chapter 4 of his book The God Argument, ‘An Axe to the Root’, A.C. Grayling rebuts the charge that you cannot condemn something without first investigating it thoroughly, especially in the case of religion, which, being so complex...

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Roy takes Shirley on her daily outing

 After the rain Roy passes, wheeling Shirley along for her daily outing.   They are my nearest neighbours.  Shirley has had a severe stroke and they know that at any time she could have another and that would almost certainly...

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Haiyen: Lord Lawson says these things happen in the tropics

There was once a country called Happyland.  It had just celebrated the coming of a new millennium with much optimism.  Its magicians had made the people very happy through their big magic,  and there was every reason to think...

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At home with Macbeths

|At Home With The Macbeths The Skyes are at breakfast and Lady Skye is opening the post Mary:  Will ye be havin’ your porridge now mi Lord Skye? Lord Skye:  Thank you Mary Mary:  Any my Lady Skye? Lady Skye:  No porridge thank you...

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Stealing the Mona Lisa is more difficult than you think

THE LISAMr Big (cigar, dark glasses):  Waddya got today boys? Al:  We gotta pitcher. Dude:  Some broad who got lucky I guess.  She’s smilin’ like she won a lottery or summat. Mr Big;  Waddya pinch a pitcher for?  Anyway let’s see it. Dude: ...

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