Fortuna and Sapiens Part Two: The Evidence

Note: This blog was originally published as a single piece but it seemed a bit too unwieldy in that form. So I have separated the argument from the evidential analysis and called the Parts One & Two. If you've been here before, very litle has changed - it's just a bit more digestible. Blind Fortune …

Fortuna and Sapiens: Part One

Or Biological Sex & Transgenderism Note: This blog became rather large and cumbersome so I decided to separate it into two halves. The first half is my argument, my commentary, on the subject: how and why I see it as I do. The second is the evidence for that argument with multiple references to justify …

Mamma Mia – a modern myth

I've always had a soft spot for the Greeks and Romans. Not the modern ones, obviously. I mean the old ones - the old Greeks and Romans. They're good because they're long dead and weren't swarthy - unlike today's foreign Greeks and Italians who are swarthy and untrustworthy. A modern Italian: swarthy & untrustworthy The …

Levellers

Levelling up is the current mantra - as meaningless and deceitful a phrase as ever was devised by this government of charlatans, crooks and liars. Levelling? Boris Johnson as a Leveller? History has a funny habit of repeating itself. Not precisely, of course, but to present enough parallels in circumstances, events and human attitudes that …

Economics – with the Truth

Professor Richard Murphy. You will, almost certainly, have had one of three reactions to this name: a feeling of rabid, foaming loathing,a feeling of enthusiastic support,who? If you're in the first category you'll be relieved that I'm not going to be discussing him. If in the second, you might be a little disappointed. If in …

What A Cult – Johnsonian populism.

Something significant is in the air. Nothing that could compare with what happened to Trump through the election he lost and the joy that much of America felt at the dismissal of such a corrosive, destructive figure. Though he hasn't gone away, though his hold over the Republican Party continues to be tight, though he …

Carry On Hancock

Now look - I know I'm straying into the realms of the QAnon loons who have nothing better to do with their lives than dream up absurd and unevidenced conspiracies to give themselves the sense that they have some significance. It saves them having to confront the sobering fact that their - in fact everyone's …

The English National Mythology – or the whole world in an email.

The thing about the English myth is that it overwhelmingly reinforces the notion that little England triumphs not only over adversity - many national myths do that in order to produce their heroes - but against overwhelming, perhaps impossible, odds. The little weakling lad who manages to pull the sword from the stone where full-grown …

Nelson’s Headset – how we see ourselves.

The recent Royal furore has proved one thing for certain: we really need to address our problems. Our obsession with the Windsors is damaging in itself, but it is also symptomatic of a much deeper malaise in our national life. The way in which we see ourselves; what we are prepared to accept from our …

Dark Clouds Over The Enlightenment

I've always been attracted to the quirky, the consciously artificial, the absurd in the arts - I find the absurd funny. It appeals to my sense of humour. The quirky and the absurd. I find naturalism tiresome. Films that attempt to recreate a faithful facsimile of real life just don't hold my attention, generally. My …