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Well, there's an election coming up - you may have noticed - so it is Time to Opine, thereby fixing my words in stone for posterity to ...

The latest installment in a long line of bollox. E&E News breathlessly tells us that Scientists at two of America's biggest auto...

Another Hollow Man shuffles off, though I don't have an RS for that 1 , only the Potty Peer . Oh, the shame. Does no one else notice, ...

Not so long ago, when I last wrote - the first of October - the Beeb was reporting " Covid-19: Growth in cases may be slowing in Engl...

Things are getting somewhat confusing. In our own parochial UK... no wait, in our own parochial East, things aren't too bad; we're o...

[Another incomplete draft, published at end of year. I didn't finish this, and it isn't as polished as I'd hope, but may be int...

The chapter on Rousseau begins with the witty Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), though a philosophe in the eighteenth-century French sense,...

[Note: published at end-of-year during review. This is only a fragment, and I really meant to write more, but then again I really meant to f...

After Bad beekeeping 2020 we come to the autumn edition. Here's the "before" picture, though I admit that, almost unbelievabl...

I'm (re)reading, for various purposes, Russell's  A History of Western Philosophy . As with so many things outside my field, the pr...

 Via Twatter . Being pols, they are delusionally optimistic; from the intro: What we are describing is a future with an improved quality of ...

We went on holiday to France at the end of July / beginning of August. This isn't about the holiday, but about the Covid aspects. Noth...

Alas poor HSC, I knew it well. Too well perhaps. You can still view its magnificent bloated final state at archive.is, but if you visit th...

I'm back. Did you miss me? Well no probably not. We were back in the Ecrins, I shall bore you with more pix later, but for now this is ...

Mandlestam, of course . But it isn't quite working out like that. My graph shows a puzzle: in orange, right axis, the USA new cases. In...

Or so says the NYT . Which appears to be having a spot of bother just recently . Not to mention SlateStarCodex . Never mind, we'll pres...

Someone asked me by email about the shifting history of NPOV on wiki; as is my wont, I'll answer by blog. For those not part of the in-...