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Oct
Category Archives: life
Adam Smith on enlightened self interest
17
Oct
Bloggers like me are prone to self doubt. Not, I hasten to add, in respect of what we say of the state we’re in, summarised in my open letter on China. There’s too much evidence for there to be any … Read More »
More crap thinking on Covid
2
Oct
David Leonhardt, New York Times, September 27, 2021 The messianic certainty I detect on all sides of the Covid conversation is dismaying. People with no obvious qualification to do so are not only sounding off in FB echo chambers as … Read More »
Says Rosa …
2
Oct
The most revolutionary thing we can do is always proclaim loudly what is happening Speaking of Rosa, early Xmas shoppers, methodically placing ticks against the names on their prezzie lists, might consider this gem from cartoonist and writer Kate … Read More »
Brexit, Dali and cognitive dissonance
1
Oct
In Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali, George Orwell targeted a knee-jerk mode of thinking; a binary either/or refusal to see (or acknowledge) nuance and complexity. Why, asked Orwell, did the liberal progressives of his day who recognised … Read More »
Salt to King’s Bromley the slow way
24
Sep
Does this place look familiar? Right down to the concrete fence post, cracked and crooked? Then I guess you read my post, earlier this month, King’s Bromley to Sawley by slow boat, one of whose early images was this: Both … Read More »
Freud’s narcissism of small differences
20
Sep
In her blog post today, Caitlin Johnstone implicitly draws on the great man’s insight with these words: You don’t own your comrades. A lot of people will get angrier about a political ally disagreeing with them on one percent of … Read More »
Help!
18
Sep
NB for those who got here via my e-alert to this post, my remarks on the brilliant C4 drama, Help, come after these idiotic outpourings on Britain’s nuclear weapons. * Late yesterday a FB post plugging BBC History Extra began … Read More »
King’s Bromley to Sawley by slow boat
10
Sep
Wednesday: day two: 07:15. The weir comes as an unpleasant surprise. I overnighted on Branston Golf Course, a mile upstream of Burton, to arise at six. Sleeping and bivvy bags rolled up and stowed, my scan of parched grass – … Read More »