Galileo’s ball

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...

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Wittgenstein’s birthday

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...

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April 26th I Wittgenstein’s birthday

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...

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Cloud cuckoo land

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...

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Thomas Jackson’s 7/7

  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...

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Thomas Jackson’s Plastic England

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,...

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I got a leaflet through my door

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...

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