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 »
It’s a tale of two Philips. Oxford commas, not to be confused with learned lepidopterans, also come in handy when list items house subclauses which may themselves contain the conjunctives and or or: Oxford Colleges include Magdalen, ‘Maudlin’ to the … Read More »
I’ve been guilty of this myself so know what I’m talking about here. *
Arunkumar added the four images shown below. That at top left I assume to be authentic and contemporaneous. The other three are stills from a movie scene of the child being led to the electric chair and and strapped in. … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian Today’s selection is on the face of it an eclectic mix, taking in the non-dualism of Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, the vast storehouse of treasure – and potential for WW3 – below Greenland’s melting … Read More »
This post also features in OffGuardian The exchange below took place a few days ago, below the line of an OffGuardian piece on the corruption of the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as shown in its … Read More »
I should make the above the recurring header for a regular column … Spotted today on FB: George Orwell, of whom I have a few criticisms and not all of them minor, could also be right on the nail. In … Read More »