Apr
25
2019
Looking back now, it seems as if my life was transformed when I became aware of Galileo’s discovery of inertia, though admittedly many would think that a somewhat unlikely cause of a transformation of life. Like most people, I...
Apr
23
2019
April 26th is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s birthday. I can’t say that taking them as a job lot I go very much for the great philosophers. St Augustine thought that having erections was disgusting and it was an act worthy of...
Apr
23
2019
April 26th is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s birthday. I can’t say that taking them as a job lot I go very much for the great philosophers. St Augustine thought that having erections was disgusting and it was an act worthy of...
Apr
16
2019
Leave friends I have are always pointing to independent countries that are doing well despite not belonging to a big trading block, South Korea, Norway and Switzerland for example. But when I started looking into it I found that...
Apr
10
2019
7/7 (performed at Edinburgh as The Circle Line)
By Thomas Jackson
Cast:
Michael Gibson
Michaela Gibson
Prologue
At the back of the stage are two free-standing door frames. Between them and nearer, but not too near, the front a sofa.
Enter Michael and Michaela. They stand...
Apr
10
2019
Plastic England
By Thomas Jackson
Cast:
Jim Wheelwright
Mavis Young
Jim Wheelwright is discovered sitting in a wheelchair waving a transistor radio above his head and cuddling and kissing it. Mavis, his carer, is dusting, sweeping and generally tidying up
Jim: My beautiful! My love,...
Apr
05
2019
Yes a convicted criminal did sway the balance in the vote for Cooper's bill and that is an irony that deserves the pen of a great tragedian. But let's not forget that the whole Leave campaign in 2016 was...