Don’t crow over the Australians too much.

You shouldn't blame the Australians too much for not being able to deal with the swinging ball.  In the past Geoffrey Boycott spent hours before the 1970-71 tour of Australia practising batting on concrete surfaces, in order to learn...

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Science can only tell us what it can tell us.

'Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!  Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, that givest to forms and images a breath and everlasting motion' wrote Wordsworth.  Atheists will say these words are mere pleasing fantasies.  The only realities...

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How do we address the plight of Africa?

What will undo us in the end is our lack of concern for our fellow human beings.  No-one knows what would have happened in Africa if we had not colonized it.  But we did colonize it and altered its...

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Why is Obama proposing radical climate legislation only now?

Why is Obama only proposing radical climate legislation now, six and a half years after he became Pesident?  Because he knows he could not get such legislation through Congress.  And now it doesn't matter, because by the time it...

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The climate summit in Paris will fail

The climate summit in Paris in December will fail for the same reason that all the other climate summits have failed, over the question of responsibility.  The developed nations won't accept that they have the primary responsibility for dealing...

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Lions and Christians at Edgbaston

An atmosphere of lions and Christians at Edgbaston.  The days when Cowdrey came out to face Wes Hall, with a broken arm and one over and one wicket remaining, and gentlemen started to politely gnaw their umbrellas long gone....

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