Anything if given long enough will, it seems…

Anything if given long enough will, it seems, turn into the opposite of itself.  Monks end up running public schools.  The Labour Party turns into a reserve team for the Tories.  Communist officials lose no time in forming themselves...

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Is it really credible…?

 Is it really credible that within the space of four million or at most six million years, the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms,  a creature as different as ourselves from the proto-chimpanzee that was the ancestor of...

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As humanity has done from time immemorial…

 As humanity has done from time immemorial – for this is why they have entered deep caves and erected so many cromlechs, megaliths, temples, churches and cathedrals to celebrate it -  I hear divine voices in wild geese crying...

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How many children a year are abused by paedophiles?

How many children a year are abused by paedophiles?  One in half a million?  One in a quarter of a million? One in a hundred thousand?  Certainly a problem and children need to be protected from paedophiles but statistically...

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Is the Womens’ Equality Party yet another disaster for humankind?

It is in the nature of humankind to be kindly, as the word implies.  I drove my car the other day - how stupid can an old git get? - through a fence almost into a river.  The neighbours...

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A disaster for the future

Two weeks ago climate scientists published a report saying that they had examined the proposals put forward by 147 governments ahead of the summit in Paris in December, and even if the most far-reaching ideas are adopted - which...

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Is science the myth of western capitalism?

 Is science the mythical narrative of western capitalism?  Well yes and no.  It is not in the sense that science discovers facts about nature and they are true whether the reigning economic system  is capitalism or  primitive barter or...

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Am I right in detecting a complacent swagger…?

 Am I right in detecting a complacent swagger in the gait of the Tory cabinet ministers as they walk into No 10?  They should be crawling along on their knees beating their breasts. The report released by the Grantham...

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Thursday is the feast day of St John Paul II

 Thursday this week is the feast day of John Paul II.  In many ways he was a great man.  I admire his stand against war.  If only those pious Christians Bush and Blair had listened to him.  But I...

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The loving voice I hear…

The loving voice I hear in rain pattering on the roof and waves breaking on the shore and rivers running over stones is that of our universal mother. 

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