Mar
22
2016
Darwin made one of the greatest discoveries in the whole of science. But what is not so generally appreciated is that the accounts by the young Darwin of his sublime experiences of nature in South America in his Beagle Journal, at a...
Mar
22
2016
Great Canal Journeys is one of my favourite shows on TV. As they sail canals 'meandering happily along' through 'havens of tranquiliity' and 'timeless landscapes'. She is every gentle refined upper class lady you ever knew. He is...
Mar
14
2016
There are no answers in economics. Capitalism gives us extreme differences between rich and poor. Sixty-two people owning more wealth than half the world’s population is both obscene and ludicrous. Its claim that the market distributes goods with maximum...
Mar
03
2016
So Alan Johnson is to go to prison. I know nothing about this particular case so we can only believe that Johnson is as guilty and the girl as innocent as the jury say they are. Yet is something...
Mar
02
2016
I have become completely disillusioned with the Green Party. If like me you think that the scientists are now unanimous, or certainly virtually so, that the current climate change is man-made, that we and the rest of the planet...
Mar
01
2016
Loveliest of Men: Darwin and the tragedy of The Origin of Species – the poet who died. By Thomas Jackson. Kindle £2.72 Paperback £4.99 Amazon and bookshops.
Darwin made one of the greatest discoveries in the whole of science. But...