45 years ago to-day the illegal Wilson régime proscribed the best wireless stations in the land (well, actually just off the land) and renamed the B.B.C.’s stations in line with the Labour Party’s
Continue reading →Pericles
Science as religion.
Contemplating protests so widespread in America about genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.s), I’m struck by the facts that Americans to-day, just as peoples around the World, are taller and generally have a greater life expectancy than ever before. (Admittedly
Continue reading →Rendering unto Caesar
I should be hard pressed to imagine anything less interesting than the tax affairs of one Jimmy Carr*, a comedian – so I’m told – of whom I had never heard till about two days ago, but, as
Continue reading →News International – Something puzzles me
I have a question that those propping up the bar at the Raccoon Arms might be able to answer.
One would have to have been on a planet going around α-Centauri not to have been bombarded for
Continue reading →On the standard of English
I am writing here not of the restoration of ‘good English’; of, for example, eliminating convolute expressions such as ‘a number of’ (which calls for a singular verb but almost all use with a plural) in favour of
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