Oct
29
2020
I was watching a catch-up on TV of Happy Valley, and the magisterial acting of Sarah Lancashire. Have you ever seen depression, despair and courage delivered with this weight of realism? In the story her daughter Becky who committed...
Oct
28
2020
Neville Cardus transformed writing about cricket into art, just as he turned writing about music into the enthusiasm of first falling in love. Before him, fielders chased the crimson rambler across the greensward and wicketkeepers were the guardians of...
Oct
27
2020
Dear MP please don’t write me back a pompous letter telling me I can only write to my local constituency MP. I appreciate that an individual MP cannot deal with every bleeding heart and blocked drain in Britain. But...
Oct
26
2020
Singapore is Passing Away
The vision of Brexit is that once free of hampering EU regulations British entrepreneurs will create a dynamic economy, a Singapore-on-Thames. It is an illusion. History is a swiftly moving river ever flowing away, and those...
Oct
23
2020
The Great Diminishers (1) Locke.
Scientists, and indeed all of us, usually think within pre-conceived thought worlds, that although we may not always realize it were originally the thoughts of the great philosophers, truisms, or so we assume, that we...
Oct
20
2020
The Popes and Slavery
There have been many accusations recently that the Catholic Church blessed and permitted slavery. In the bull Dum Diversas Nicholas Vth authorized the enslavement of Africans and the seizure of “all non-Christian lands” belonging to Saracens...
Oct
19
2020
The Government’s incompetence over corona virus has been dismaying. They say they are following the science but then ignore the scientific advice. Contact tracing is a tragedy and a national humiliation. It only works if you start it when...
Oct
14
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic - post 16. In my beginning is my end.
The great philosophers are of immense importance. They are important because they stake out the boundaries of thought. They supply us with basic...