Oct
11
2021
The Nobility of the British Empire.
I want you to think about Rudolf Höss who was the commandant of Auschwitz. He oversaw the worst crime in history (although our slave trade is up there competing hard). After a mass gassing he would...
Sep
25
2021
The HGV crisis will in time doubtless be resolved. But the underlying UK problem of shortage of labour will not. Brexit has brought home to us that we have too many old people, too many disabled and too many...
Sep
14
2021
Post 22 Cézanne
Jonah Lehrer is himself a neuroscientist so he brings a special level of awareness to Cézanne’s painting techniques. Not only did Cézanne paint in the most extraordinary way. Lehrer tells us in Proust Was a Neuro-scientist that his method of painting...
Sep
03
2021
There is no God somewhere beyond the sky. But there is a creative intellectual force deep within the universe. Most ordinary people like me have at last got round to accepting that the universe began with the Big Bang. It was with...
Aug
21
2021
Richard Feynman said the whole mystery of quantum physics lies in the two-slit experiment, which showed that not only light but particles of matter are not only particles but also waves. I think the mystery of everything does. How can...
Aug
12
2021
“Doing Our Bit for the Environment”
There is a widespread misunderstanding of the so-called greenhouse effect which is fatally undermining the world’s attempts to save itself from climate catastrophe. Nowhere is this error more clearly demonstrated than in Lord Lawson’s book An...
Aug
11
2021
Currently there is much debate amongst politicians as to how we are going to meet the supposedly 4tr cost of replacing fossil fuels in the UK. The likelihood that nothing effective will be done because Tory backbenchers...
Aug
08
2021
Aug
07
2021
These days I have many issues with The Selflish Gene, but, nevertheless, despite that this is a book telling us all the way through up to the last page the precise opposite, Richard Dawkins ends it with such a thrilling...
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...