Stoat

To the National Gallery for the Siena exhibition , but we were early so browsed around. And I was happy to find Lord R again; I think they ...

Conjectures and Refutations refers, naturally. But what is so charming about Popper is the way that an idea, that in our debased times woul...

This is a great book by Karl Popper ; you should read it. You can even do that online as rosenfels.org/Popper.pdf . The overall theme is the...

Every now and again one reads a paper saying something along the lines of "ZOMG we're all going to die of starvation". Perhaps...

A follow up to  Red team rows over , though I seem to have skipped 2024 (see here for the 2024 playlist ). Not to spoil the suspense, but t...

Celeb Watch:  Energy Secretary Chris Wright Sees Opportunity In Ecological Collapse says Michael Mann . Or does he? Strictly speaking, all...

I last went to the Cairngorms in 2013 ; and my book tells me I was there in 1992, 3 and 6 . But without Howard's enthusiasm, my own wea...

A familiar question - I mean my headline, not the cartoon. I don't intend to answer it. My title comes from  In a democracy, when and w...

Or, the year in Stoats, 2024. This year, with too few comments to meaningfully rank anything, I'm returning to ranking by what I like. ...

In the strange quiet 'twixt Christmas and the New Year I bring you three light fluffy concoctions of confusion: Starmer asks UK regulat...