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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world by Dr. Iain McGilchrist
Loss of the broader picture…..knowledge would become replaced by information, tokens or representations…wisdom lost all together…..loss of concepts of skill and judgment as too...
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Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons vote – the text
So, though it gave room to bypass the UN, it also prevented Cameron from acting until another vote had taken place meaning that even if the House voted for the motion it would have a further...
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The Confessions of Gordon Brown
Kevin Toolis‘ The Confessions of Gordon Brown is playing at The Old Court House on Church St and I went along to the 2pm show on Sunday. This monologue debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in July, moved...
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Wake up Europe – Here comes the future!
The recent deaths of hundreds of migrants from North Africa looking for better lives in Europe should serve as the death knell of post war Western foreign policy and a wake up call for Europe’s...
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Phones are smart but God would be cool
This is the state of much of our society. Gradually the instant communication and access to information is transforming society. Just this week I was told that one brand of smart phone can now be...
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Skiving rife at UK Met Office
Hundreds of staff at the UK Met Office have not attended work since early December and are spending the winter in luxury hotels in the Caribbean at taxpayers expense it was alleged today by a British...
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Dallas Buyers Club
The major achievement of the Dallas Buyers Club is that we begin to understand how the United States medical establishment, though built to help patients was, in fact, an obstacle to alleviating their...
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I’m thinking of voting UKIP…..
The other day I told a friend that I am against further mass immigration to the UK and she gasped. This was tantamount to racism! Well, it gets worse. I’m thinking of voting UKIP! For decades I have...
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Professionalisation of Politics – Labour sign Axelrod
Labour have engaged Bill Clinton’s old political consultant David Axelrod on a six figure salary to be their strategic adviser. Good grief! Just what they need. Another spin doctor! Margaret Thatcher...
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More and More and More – The distorted Vision of Jeremy Bentham
The shabby, half empty Co-Op on Neville Road closed down and a new Waitrose sprung up in its place. Suddenly, the place is bustling. When I worked in Africa, I would return for holidays and wander...
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Cecil Rhodes and Year Zero thinking
Removing statues and other artefacts from previous generations would be pandering to an arrogant and self righteous attitude that WE (the people of today who adhere to Western values of today) have...
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Throwing back the pebbles
Recently I was meandering along Hove Prom when I saw a lorry tipping its load onto the beach and I took some photos. It occurred to me that, if I were maliciously inclined, I could publish these...
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Barack Obama, anti-intellectualism and Tea Cozies
Intellectuals can never admit their contempt for the poor and uneducated and so politician of both Left and Right pay vociferous lip service to defending the rights of the poor.......but only in a...
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Bring back Victorian urinals the size of coffins
Bring back police front desks staffed by aged constables. Bring back ticket counters staffed by people and bring back Victorian urinals the size of coffins.
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Biking in France – Liberté, égalité, bureaucratié
I don’t think that the French state trusts anyone. In the UK the law states that you can’t drive with too much alcohol in your blood. How you achieve this is your problem. You may abstain completely...
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Driverless Cars – Virtual Humanity
Technology peaked in the 1940s with the introduction of the home freezer, everything that followed has been efficiency gains, keeping up with the Jones’ or, as Herman Hesse would have it: “…no more...
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Social Network Analysis – Sauce for the Gander
Liddle points out that people from fee paying schools comprise 7% of the UK population yet make up 62% of diplomatic service, 58% of those working in the law, 80% of high court judges, 55% of senior...
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social media – virtual telepathy
Civilization relies on trust. It is nurtured by discretion, politeness and respect. It requires a suppression of our knee jerk reptilian brain responses. Our hate and our fears. But the Internet is...
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