Sep
18
2015
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...
Sep
16
2015
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...
Sep
16
2015
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...
Sep
13
2015
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...
Sep
12
2015
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...
Sep
12
2015
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...
Sep
11
2015
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...
Sep
10
2015
'Only kings wear purple and live in palaces' says the Gospel. So what do the bishops do? Wear purple and live in palaces.
Sep
10
2015
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...
Sep
10
2015
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...