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Just the introduction, but there's enough wrong in it that it is worth writing up, or so I fool myself. I picked this book up knowing I...

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

It am dat Sabine again. Worth listening to I think, though you're not obliged to accept every word. Mostly interesting because she seg...

Oh dear; it am dat Pilketty again, pushing his politics whilst masquerading as a scientist. See their letter , if you really want to see a ...

Musk's mildly-heralded Grokipedia is out as Beta 0.1; we should take a look. As I recall the last Wiki-clone was Justapedia , and that...

The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book by  Thorstein "Bunde" Veblen . It isn't very good. It has one good idea - conspicuo...

Back in April I presciently predicted, or perhaps just noted, The End of the World as We Know It , due to the Mango Mussolini's idiot t...

In the Middle East that is; the Russian invasion of Ukraine is doomed to grind on for longer I fear; more on that anon. Trump has a cunning ...

Following my previous brilliantly successful venture into art criticism , I feel emboldened to comment on The Hunt in the Forest, and friend...

I still haven't read the bloody thing, and at this rate I never will, but happily CarbonBrief have read it for me . I'm going to as...

Once again I'm briefly back. This time my excuse was a week - or thereabouts - canoeing around Stora La, a large lake in Sweden; booke...

In the ever-decreasing intervals between me having to be elsewhere, I find time to write a few words. First, if you've wondered where I...

Having dissed the Greeks , it's time for the Chinese. I assure you that this is a coincidence. But what isn't a matter of chance is...

I happened to pick up a copy of Greek Science by Benjamin Farrington  - well, time hangs heavy on retired hands, as Kipling warned us . The...

My last post started off as this post, so to speak, but mutated. Happily, the situation hasn't changed much in the last few days. Befo...