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Dodgy Dave has been at it again. Ever true to form, he is prepared to con the British people (this time with their own money) in pursuit of his political legacy: i.e, the man who held the two unions together – UK and EU. In mid-April he used taxpayers’ money – our money (most of us don’t have offshore accounts) … [Read on]
Towards the end of last year, I noticed a headline on the BBC website about a mother writing to her transgender son (supportively, presumably). As there is literally no subject on the face of this planet that interests me less than trans-anything, I scrolled on. However it lodged in the back of my mind. Just how remorselessly, I wondered, had … [Read on]
God’s Sparking Plug By a curious coincidence a firing of the Great Sparking Plug at CERN, known to most of us as the Hadron Collider, after which scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, occurred on the third day of the month of the Olympics, which puts the lakeshore site on the same footing as Delphi, the sacred Pan … [Read on]
Political correctness is like dry rot – or is it rising damp? It gets everywhere, for example into the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I happened to look up an article in it the other day (on suicide), and was soon alerted to the presence of political correctness by the use of she as the impersonal pronoun. Baron d’Holbach, according to … [Read on]
I caught an early flight recently and therefore stayed overnight at the airport hotel. Catching the lift to leave in the morning, the doors opened to reveal two beached human whales within. They gave the lie to the lift’s warning notice that it could fit eight people. That might have been true some years ago, but not now. The beached … [Read on]
