Jul
20
2021
I am now extremely distressed by the monks’ decision to leave Downside. They have a reservoir of great goodwill amongst OGs and the many friends of Downside who would be only too happy to help them, and I now think...
Jul
19
2021
Darwin’s Eden
Book One. A Preface: The Curse that This Most Wonderful of Men Bequeathed to Us All.
Part One: As if they had put arsenic in his coffee.
(18,000 words)
A Preface to a Preface. This is my personal story of trying to make the...
Jul
19
2021
Perhaps you should get off your high horse madam.A Catholic lady tweets that she is so dismayed to hear that her parish priest has been abusing children she is not sure she can go to mass again. The crimes of...
Jul
14
2021
At least spare us the green twaddle. Despite Boris Johnson saying the UK will be the Saudi Arabia of wind power, the Government has abandoned its green homes initiative, removed duty on domestic flights, cut foreign aid by £4bn...
Jul
13
2021
California is now caught in a vicious feedback spiral of heat, drought and fire. Recently 54 degrees, the hottest temperature ever on earth, was recorded in Death Valley. If this can happen in California dreaming of all places it...
Jul
07
2021
Doubtless this mail will go to some secretary who will write back politely saying MPs are not allowed to deal with correspondence from people who aren’t their constituents. Please don’t bother. Just hand this on to your MP and tell...