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Rumours and leaps
I squirmed as I listened to the discussion on the BBC’s “Sunday Morning Live” programme. The question under discussion: “Is there an afterlife?” The protagonists said nothing that was particularly original, or newly challenging, or exciting. The antagonists said little … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalyptic, Buddha, Confuscius, First Axial Age, God, humanitarian ethics, Jesus, non-realist, Paulinist, proto-orthodoxy, realist, Sea of Faith movement, theism, Zoroaster
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His many missteps notwithstanding
(Occasionally I am sent an article from another blogger with an invitation to share the material with as wide a circle of readers as possible. What follows is one such article. For reasons of length it is an edited version … Continue reading
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Tagged biased media, image, Jeremy Corbyn, party treachery, policy proposals, progressivism, socialism
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Selling to the highest bidder
He is the Member of Parliament for Tatton, Cheshire. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative government of David Cameron and, as such, was the architect of the debilitating austerity measures imposed on low income British families … Continue reading
A wrong answer to a valid question
It was the afternoon of Monday, 13th June, 1955. I sat on a suitcase on the quayside at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, as, with my family and other immigrants from the UK, I waited for a bus to take us to the … Continue reading
Playing long and loose with people’s land and lives
On April 2, 1982, Argentine forces launched the invasion of the Falkland Islands, beginning the Falklands War. There was a resounding condemnation of the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands by British politicians and press alike. The Falkland Islands was British … Continue reading
Heaping insult on injury
In this, the first article for the New Year 2017, I wish to return to an issue that first appeared in this blog in the early part of 2015. At that time two articles, (“Caught in a trap”, 03.03.2015, and … Continue reading
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Tagged BIOT, Chagos Islands, conspiracy, Diego Garcia, heritage, justice, rule of law, secrecy
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The politics of identity
In his book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, the left-wing author Owen Jones says: “Of course, the struggles for the emancipation of women, gays, and ethnic minorities are exceptionally important causes. New Labour has co-opted them, passing genuinely … Continue reading
