A friend emailed yesterday, saying I hadn’t been posting much of late and wanting to know I’m OK. I’m not, as it happens. I’m depressed, a little frightened and very confused. None of these states are bad things. They don’t … Read More »
… and sixty-one years earlier. On August 25, 1959 – eight days after the release of Kind of Blue – Miles Davis was at Birdland, recording an Armed Forces Day broadcast for Voice of America. In between sets he … Read More »
Two weeks ago an essay appeared on the Lockdown Sceptics site by one Alexis Fitzgerald. Headed, The Left-Wing Case Against Lockdown, it began thus: I consider myself to be left-wing on virtually every political topic: I am a socially-liberal social … Read More »
this post also features on off-guardian As I had last month, I’d wanted in my three reads this month to start addressing the alarming bellicosity of Washington in respect of several nations, but most frighteningly China. For those with some … Read More »
The thrust of my recent post, If only I wasn’t a commitment phobe, argued that the science and its underlying data are insufficiently developed or clear to support the levels of certainty professed on all sides of a somewhat tribalist … Read More »
Science matches theories with evidence and attempts to falsify them, so they can be refined to better match reality. A theory from a group of scientists is just that: a theory. Believing the opinion of that group without critical verification … Read More »
Posted on behalf of Chik Collins and Peter Jones, as follow up to their earlier call No unsafe return to work! Stay at home! Unite across the UK to save lives and to work for a socially just reconstruction! In … Read More »
I don’t share [George] Monbiot’s faith in the impartiality of UN agencies and that includes the OPCW. If you deem, as I do, western powers guilty of a dirty war on Syria whose real drivers – like those in Yugoslavia, … Read More »
In Walking the Erewash I composed a limerick to steer readers past the pitfall of pronouncing the eponymous river as ‘earwash’. Pairing it with ‘very posh’ I thought to spare embarrassment, should ever you find yourself in that neck of … Read More »