If someone is fearmongering about global warming, they are dead wrong. Image credit Pixabay I recently published a story about Factfulness by Hans Rosling. It is a brilliant book and I urge every thinking person to read it. This book challenged my own deeply-held views about…
Category: politics
Such fellows!
There is a passage in Plato’s dialogue Gorgias whichI love. Two and a half thousand years ago, and these fellows are still with us. It speaks to the present moment; we might think we live in a different world to that…
Something putrid
There's something putrid about America. Now, don't get me wrong. I love the land, I have a lot of great friends in America, I spend a fair bit of time there. But there is a stench about it. Every month…
When will they ever learn?
The term "concentration camp" has been thrown around a fair bit over the past week or so. Often by people who are paid to know better.Wikipedia points to history books noting that it was the British in South Africa around…