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Continue reading →: Comfort betting
Australia play England in the semi final of the Women’s World Cup today. I like to have a flutter on sporting events just to add to the excitement, or to make a dull game interesting. To avoid total disappointment I bet on the outcome I least want to happen –…
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Continue reading →: What next?
As Roland Baines heads off to dinner led by his young granddaughter where does that leave me, the reader of Ian McEwan’s novel Lessons? Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book The World seems a bit ambitious. Angela Hui’s autobiography Take Away looks interesting… Browsing in bookshops is fun, but not as time…
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Continue reading →: Philosophy forum at the Ou
I will be starting a level 2 undergraduate course in October studying Philosophy. There is a forum for those interested in philosophy on the OU students’ website. Because there has been sustained interest in Albert Camus’ quotation on my blog, I have posted ‘Integrity has no need of rules’ on…
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Continue reading →: Corruption
Turkey’s Executive President (dictator) is the master of Machiavellian strategy. Locking up or executing political rivals, protesters, liberals and the Deans of universities to silence all opposition has taken away all hope for a secular democracy. When a recording of Erdogan and his son discussing hiding tens of millions of…
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Continue reading →: Droning on
Putin’s war is brought home to the Russian people by Ukrainian drone strikes on their capital city. The lie of ‘special military operations’ can no longer be perpetrated on the dictator’s population. Obviously the Russian missile strikes on civilian targets are deadlier, but drone attacks on Russia are as much…
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Continue reading →: Home nation advantage
On Saturday France and England get a chance to get revenge for their opening defeats in Scotland and Wales last week. Rugby fans can lift the morale of their teams by spirited cheering. Whether England can raise their game against Wales sufficiently to get their revenge is doubtful. The French…
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Continue reading →: Going forward at the end of the day
In case you were wondering, I am not good. This is not a statement about my moral decline, but a pedantic appeal for the reinstatement of adverbs. Nobody sends Get Good cards to ailing friends or relatives, so why should the common response to “how are you?” be “I’m good”?…
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Continue reading →: A feast of rugby internationals
With the Rugby World Cup a month away there are some interesting matches in preparation for that contest. Scotland had a player red carded but still fought back to beat France 25-21. The All Blacks battled hard to snatch victory from the Wallabies. As if that wasn’t enough exciting rugby…
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Continue reading →: Censorship
A quick look online will give you a curious list of writing that was banned at some time. Obscenity is the common reason for censorship, but you wouldn’t think that Shakespeare is included in that category. The Bowdlers took it upon themselves to remove passages from the bard’s work that…
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Continue reading →: Balancing the books
The NI Secretary is considering new measures to raise funds for the ailing economy struggling under the weight of public spending. Selling off NI Water will be an unpopular move, introducing prescription charges will hit the elderly and window tax has already been tried. Why not try crowdfunding? Libraries, rehab…
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