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There Is No Progress in Philosophy will be an idea familiar to us all; my particular text is taken from an article published in 2011 but br...

It is always charming to be the bearer of good news, so I am pleased to reveal to you that  Donald Trump is the war’s biggest loser , in th...

The Case Against Education   is a book written by libertarian economist Bryan Caplan and published in 2018 by Princeton University Press. Dr...

The classic Science advances one funeral at a time refers; and I swear I have at least one other riffing on the theme. And today brings us...

We interrupt your war coverage for a struggle of a different kind, the Red team - (minty) Blue team wars. Last year the Reds were untoucha...

So it finally happened: the MM ran out of patience and decided to twat the MMs , though this was perhaps a little late for the tens of tho...

Wiki tells me 1 that The Foundations of Modern Political Thought is a two-volume work of intellectual history by Quentin Skinner, publishe...

Art for Art's Sake is a song by 10cc , but I prefer the He's Dead Jim version ; the original is thin. Although the song is really ...

A rare post about climate; I do apologise. But first: I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A wast...

We start with a nice little cartoon. Perhaps a good reminder that the left can poke fun at itself, or can't resist doing so. Anyway: da...

Or, the Year in Stoats, 2025. Having at last driven away almost all my commentators - sorry about that, and thanks for all that did comment...

Astonishing sanity from the Graun . What has happened? A week ago they published a dumb editorial saying wanky stuff about Africa not want...

The Introduction refers. Part one, as I suspected, doesn't improve on it. Indeed part one has very little to add, but attempts to disg...

Just the introduction (but now the rest is also available), but there's enough wrong in it that it is worth writing up, or so I fool m...

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume . I'll stop quoting from Wik...