The other day I mentioned Occam’s razor, a conceptual test dear to the hearts of scientists and epistemologists for evaluating competing explanations of observable phenomena. My usage prompted this from Jon, a much loved pal last seen at his St … Read More »
I enjoyed yesterday’s trip down memory lane. Judging on number of visits, comments below the line and private emails sent in response, so did others. Though a scribbler all my life, I only really found my stride fifteen years ago … Read More »
I’m resistant to the idea of covid-19 as a huge scam, cooked up for one or more of – introducing draconian curbs to liberty … tilting further the balance of class forces from labour to capital … covering up for … Read More »
When death stalks us it is not bankers we turn to, or corporate executives, or hedge fund managers. Nonetheless, those are the people our societies have best rewarded. Marx is misunderstood. His use of the word materialism is not the … Read More »
Do not miss this. Yanis Varoufakis on the political and economic impact of the crisis – and its inextricable links with the 2008 crash. Price to you? Eighteen minutes and twenty-two seconds of your life. (See also: Kevin Ovenden on … Read More »
(See also: Kevin Ovenden on Covid-19 … Varoufakis on Covid-19) Anne, a good friend from down under, posted this an hour ago on FB: In spite of everything, there seem to be some potentially significant and positive things arising from … Read More »
I’m a big admirer of blogger Caitlin Johnstone. Along with John Pilger and Julian Assange she’s one of the best things to have come out of Australia. She doesn’t always wow me – unlike me she posts daily so that … Read More »
This from a woman who describes herself as ‘exited from prostitution, highly critical of the practice of buying sex and increasingly alienated within feminist circles’: Trans activists [seek] to convince you that because a small minority have ambiguous genitalia or … Read More »
It’s getting to be a bit of a habit, this. Me taking issue with poor arguments to support beliefs I broadly share. Here’s the latest culprit, spied today on FB. * See also my post of December 6.
ONE MORNING in the summer of 2007 saw me in my daughter’s Edinburgh flat, taking in the wisdoms of Sir Jonathan Porritt as set out in an Independent piece on saving the environment. The plain truth, he was giving me … Read More »