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

Geddit? I'm not entirely sure Der Spiegel does, those heavy-humoured Germans y'know. But anyway, this is my excuse to spread my wi...

Following on from my brilliant analysis of USAnian politics I feel inclined to write some words on DOGE and related matters; and Sabine...

So another election looms. I find my words from 2020 are weirdly recyclable:  Well, there's an election coming up - you may have noti...

My headline is a half-remembered quote from a poem read at school in childhood. And since I haven't had a poem or art here for a bit......

Having established - at least to my own satisfaction -  The Foundations of Morality , I can now play the fun game of deconstructing other p...

WKWW refers. The shiny new Parliamentarians’ Guide to Climate Change says "Climate change is an area fraught with disinformation, cr...

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt is an essentially correct analysis of morality; I recommend it highly 2 . You can, if you lik...

By the sword you did your work and by the sword you die 1 will be recognised by all cultured folk as a quote from Aeschylus, spoken by Cly...

Having come back from France I guess I really ought to knuckle down and post some scintillating content, despite the lack of interesting th...

Trump, because he was a clown, put tarifs on imports of photovoltaics. Biden, because he was also a clown, maintained and extended this. Ho...

A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak  is a harmless lightweight piece of SF-fantasy "pastoral" fluff. There is no particular ...

You should probably start by reading SCOTUSblog's  Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies for a larg...

Another year, another Mays . Somewhat wet this time ; my pic is from Friday M2 which was especially rainy during the row-down; here we see,...

Spinoza, Ethics was recommended by Russell; that is recommended in the influence on thought sense. I "read" (browsed, skimmed, ev...