Oct
09
2018
An Unhappy Accident.
Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Selfish Gene’ was published in 1976 and Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979. Unfortunately, the way the book was often interpreted played into the hands of Mrs Thatcher’s doctrine that economic self-serving behaviour...
Oct
05
2018
Climatologists use five types to categorize hurricanes running from 1 to 5, 5 being the most severe. A 5 is defined as a hurricane that is anything above 157 mph. Last year Hurricane Patricia reached 215 mph which is a...
Oct
02
2018
The trouble with capitalism is that it has no sense of original sin, a kind of basic moral obtuseness that underlies so much of what we do. No, the invisible hand is not the hand of God as Adam...
Sep
25
2018
Subsidiarity is the doctrine that decisions should be taken at the lowest level of authority possible, a teaching especially espoused by two institutions that practise it least, the EU and the Vatican. But then in politics when did anything...
Sep
23
2018
One of the first iconic experiments in science was Newton’s shining light through a prism. He sported his oak at Cambridge (for it is not concordant with the honour of an ancient university to use so banal a phrase...
Sep
15
2018
In the wake of Jimmy Anderson’s record breaking 564 test wickets he was described by Alastair Cook as England’s greatest ever cricketer. We may doubt that in any case incommensurable comparison. To start with more test matches are played...
Sep
04
2018
I’m so disappointed by feminism. I had thought that surely if women had more power there would be a saner, more rational, a less selfish and more caring world. But women in public life are proving themselves to be...
Aug
31
2018
What would you do if all the prophets were telling you there is a great flood coming but then in the last ten years more oil has been discovered in the Permian basin in Texas than there is in...