The River Soar yesterday. What follows is less pretty. I’m promoting three reads here, starting with Caitlin Johnstone’s post today: Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born Things are fucked. That’s our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly … Read More »
Sunday afternoon with the woofers, on the River Soar around Kegworth and Sutton Bonington. We leave the tiny car park due east of Kegworth on the far side of the eighteenth century bridge over the Soar. We have to cross … Read More »
Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked what she deemed the first sign of civilization in a culture. Fish hooks? Pottery? Flint spear heads? No. Mead replied that the earliest discovered sign of civilization was a femur which had been broken … Read More »
Yesterday the centre-right Nikkei Asia ran this on its website: Sri Lanka awards port project to China after dropping Japan, India Beijing steps up Belt and Road spending with support of friendly president Shipping containers at the main port of … Read More »
The Rittenhouse case is about emotion. It is about history, identity and a widening tribal divide … Intensifying tribalism in the US is not accidental but deeply tied to a turbo-charged capitalism that seeks profit from every last seam of … Read More »
As summarised in Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 8 – and more briefly in Part 9 – it had been found in March 2018 that, for the purposes of a claim under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of less favourable treatment) … Read More »
My battle with Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) over its treatment of me as one of more than eight hundred part time lecturers – almost forty percent of its academic workforce – on a zero hours contract is now over nine … Read More »
Thanks again to Dave Hansell for this. Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton named the effect after his friend, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Crichton describes it thus: You open a newspaper to an article on a subject you … Read More »
Four days ago on FB, The Economist was plugging its latest attack on Beijing. Click on the image to go to the Facebook post and ensuing comment I responded: That capitalists are subordinate to state policy is horrifying to the … Read More »