Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 9
[ezcol_1half]Half Column[/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Half Column[/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half] Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 1 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 2 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 3 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 4 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 5 [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Roddis v Sheffield … Read More »
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
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 »
Another FB China debate
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 »
Julian’s mother speaks
Posted two days ago on Facebook by the Free Assange Committee (Germany). Das Schicksal meines Sohnes wird die ZUKUNFT aller FREIEN Menschen sein, die ihre Stimme gegen die Tyrannei und Korruption der REGIERUNGEN erheben A day later, yesterday, Christine’s words … Read More »
Attenborough in peace
My route yesterday, the loop taken anti-clockwise Not my normal route. Usually I walk from steel city house by way of Attenborough Cricket Club. Instead I took the Skylink to Chilwell Retail Park, then hiked down the lane to the … Read More »
More from the (Face) Book of Wisdom
[ezcol_1half] Seen today. ‘AOC’ is left Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bill Gates is, well, Bill Gates. I’m no fan of Bill, and not best qualified to say whether cows or cars are the greater emitters of greenhouse gases. (I’m told that … Read More »
The unaccountable power of Bill Gates
Bill Gates and the power of the world’s richest men have been on my mind of late. The third of my three autumn reads last month was an in-depth on how the Gates Foundation bypasses critical scrutiny and accountable oversight … Read More »
Selfishness in 4 easy steps
Seen just now on Facebook. It came with the caption: Please don’t allow yourself to become the person on the left. To be fair, we don’t know Mr Left’s side of the story. Maybe Mr Right murdered Mr Left’s … Read More »
The Atlantic: “the bad guys are winning”
Above is the illustration for the cover story of next month’s issue of The Atlantic, mouthpiece for US liberalism. Before I get to that story, here’s former Guardian writer Jonathan Cook, as cited in my recent post on FB ‘whistleblower’ … Read More »