Not the first Baconian, the last Platonist

Galileo did not only overthrow Aristotle’s physics of motion, he destroyed the whole myth of the ordered cosmos, he most painfully disturbed the intellectual and the emotional  securities it had sustained and threatened the very stability of societies which...

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Of worms and microbes that we are so thoughtlessly destroying

It was Charles Darwin who first realized the importance of worms.  He kept an array of them in jars on his mantelpiece and found that they gradually process leaves and other debris through the acids in their stomachs and...

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Rees-Mogg, Boris and Gove the dream team? In your dreams

I can see why people cite South Korea as a model for a post-Brexit UK. Like Britain, South Korea has a small land mass, a large population and few natural resources and yet has made a great success of...

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Better Project Fear than Project Plain Bonkers

My friend Robert, who is a highly intelligent and dedicated leaver, has sent me a book making the Brexit case called ‘What is the Insider Advantage?’ by Michael Burrage.   So far I’ve read the first six chapters with great...

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