Jul
25
2017
A friend of mine went grape picking to Spain recently and one day the temperature reached 47 degrees. No grapes were picked that day. What’s going to happen as temperatures get hotter and hotter and water scarcer and scarcer? ...
Jul
20
2017
Have taken up beekeeping again which I last did fifty years ago (actually come to think of it it was 60 surely not). In those days there were no bee suits and we got stung all the time which...
Jul
19
2017
Why are so many of the tabloids, some of them owned by foreign billionaires, so keen on Brexit? It would be naïve to think that they care a button about unemployed poor people in Middlesborough. They want to sell...
Jul
17
2017
The Catholic church could do itself a big favour by getting out of the Vatican. St Peter’s was built on selling salvation - when trade slackened the Church gave it a boost by selling remission of hell fire even...
Jun
29
2017
I first published this in 2013 but although an oldie it's a goodie
Atheists like setting fire to religious scarecrows they have themselves constructed. Marooned forlornly in their fields, with odd bits of straw sticking out at absurd angles, and...
Jun
25
2017
The rest of Europe is killing itself with laughter. We sign a deal for nuclear power that ties us all in to paying twice the current price for electricity when the cost of renewables is falling so fast the...
Jun
12
2017
Bees fly by the light of the sun. A bee discovering a source of nectar is able to work out the angle between where the nectar is, the sun and the hive. She flies back to the hive and...
Jun
05
2017
Corbyn has done remarkably well in this election campaign. He comes across as honest, determined, resilient, even charismatic. But one issue he has not handled well. When he is asked whether he would ever launch a nuclear weapon, even...