By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »
I say, I say: why did the magpie help the hedgehog across the road? No, it’s not a joke. It happened for real, was caught on a dashcam and the footage uploaded to YouTube. So why did the magpie peck … Read More »
Demand for a follow up to my sloe gin post of five months ago is now approaching denial of service attack levels. My public, insistent on a progress report, must be appeased. Just after nineteen hundred on the evening of … Read More »
For International Women’s Day, here’s a plug for a wonderful graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Reviewing it in late 2015, I wrote: if we’re talking womanhood celebrated, here’s a rare treat for feminist and socialist alike. Red Rosa by Kate … Read More »
With my interlocutor’s express permission, I’m replicating his exchanges with me below the line of my February reads post. It concerns the extent to which media corruption is systemic, and that to which it is driven by the rottenness of … Read More »
By far the commonest tit – in fact the commonest non water bird, period – in Attenborough is the blue tit. Here’s one snapped yesterday as I took advantage of the sunshine, and highest temperatures in many a month, to … Read More »
While it’s hard to understand how [Adrian] Zenz has gotten away with so much statistical malpractice, a look at his background helps explain his ideological motivations, and provides important context on his negative focus on the application of birth control. … Read More »
In the (Amazon) market for dogs’ balls, and having ignored the crude innuendo of a set entitled The Dog’s Balls, I was giving serious consideration to this item: So glad I read this critical review before clicking to confirm purchase. … Read More »
… play the victim!
CV-19 as fictitious is not the only conspiracy theory in town. Just yesterday a fellow dog walker, a likeable bloke and seemingly sane, gave his view of the corona virus as unleashed by China. The “communists”, he told me, are … Read More »