Sep
29
2017
All the lovely hings of nature are not objects manufactured by God as Paley thought but God’s body, as inseparable from h(i)r as a person is inseparable from their body. The body is not a thing we have but...
Sep
28
2017
The crash of 2008 was indeed caused by the banks but it was an expression of a much deeper malaise, an economy which is not founded on money as a veil, as Adam Smith called it, of which the...
Sep
26
2017
To Albert Hall for Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Fifth, conducted by a slip of a girl, Mirga with the unpronounceable Lithuanian name: a most sublime noise, transporting, enthralling, not goblins walking over the earth as in Howards End but...
Sep
25
2017
DARWIN AND GENESIS
In writing this article I have two intertwining tragedies in my mind. One is Darwin’s misinterpretation of his own great discovery. His realization that all life emanates from a single source would better have led him to...
Sep
24
2017
This is from a report in The Observer by Robin McKie in March 2o14, the date of the last IPCC report. Hundreds of millions of refugees is unthinkable. We can't even deal with the hundred thousand coming now. How...
Sep
21
2017
How can we beat terrorism? Presently, as the recent spate of incidents suggests, we are not winning the battle. We need to try something different. If you wish to defeat your enemy, and still more if you wish to...
Sep
20
2017
"Millennials spend three times more of income on housing than grandparents" (report in today's Guardian). The Government allows foreign billionaires to compete for posh houses in Kensington and Chelsea. The billionaires don't care how high the prices go because...
Sep
18
2017
Capitalism
There is a long list of those who have prophesied the imminent demise of capitalism, only to be discomforted and dismayed by the resilience of this hugely energetic and zestful animal. Marx was only the first in the field. ...