Olive Oliver have you heard – call me Mellors

Lady Loverley's ChatterOliver Oliver have you heard - call me Mellors - OK Mellors then ooh you are rugged  the Labour Party have gone mad they've elected a lunatic to be their leader he's going to tax everything even...

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Well what about Corbyn then?

Well what about Corbyn then?  for the Parliamentary Labour Party the lunatics have taken over the asylum and for the Tories a monster has risen from the deep.  You can tell the Tories are running scared - politicians are...

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The eucharist is not a physical but a sacramental reality.

If there's anything which persuades atheists that religion really is bonkers it's the Catholic doctrine of the eucharist.  Catholics  actually believe there isn't bread and wine on the altar during Mass but the body and blood of Christ!  Hey...

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Corbyn will win the next general election

The air has been full in recent weeks with dire warnings from Corbyn’s rivals, vociferously supported by Blair and Mandelson and Brown – just about the most distrusted men in Britain one might well think – that Labour would...

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Now that I have become old I wish…

Now that I have become old I wishI could write a poem expressing how I feelThat everything to which the earth gives birthEvery cat & dog & & newt & frog & stick & stoneIs so precious and so...

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To understand Newton’s science you need to understand his alchemy (3)

From the beginning Newton was dissatisfied with what was at that time called ‘cohesion’.  What is it that makes the corpuscles cohere together in individual forms in the way that they do?  What moves them into the geometric shapes...

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To understand Newton’s science you need to understand his alchemy (2)

It is not without significance that Newton’s first mentor at Cambridge was the very Henry More with whom Boyle had crossed swords.  More was a crucial influence on the young Newton, who never entirely lost his marking by More’s...

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Purple and Palaces

'Only kings wear purple and live in palaces' says the Gospel.  So what do the bishops do?  Wear purple and live in palaces.  

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The Stupid Interlocutor

Many people, I notice, have a much-prized stupid interlocutor who ministers greatly to their self-esteem, and their triumphs over whom they frequently recount.   “The Eiffel tower is only three feet high”, says the stupid interlocutor.  I kept quiet.  I didn’t say anything.  Or...

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The Bible and Science

There is no quarrel between the Bible and science, on the contrary we need the Bible in order to appreciate science.   Science has made its marvellous discoveries through the objectivity of its method, but it has paid a high price...

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