Monday, August 29, 2016

Celebrating what has gone before

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Every now and then I contemplate christening the elegant old house which has been home for me these past 7-8 summers – walkers occasiona...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Academics who produce the goods

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In the 2 posts I did after the 23 June Brexit result, I tried to give a sense of how subsequent events were covered by some of the UK, Eur...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters

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Global events have struck me dumb…Brexit did not so much surprise as shock me – into a deep depression. But it’s not so much the result ...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Why the natives are revolting

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Only those wishing to see Britain destroyed could have wished for the events now playing out in the country in which I spent my first fi...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Europe's Fateful Day

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My last post predicted (on 14 June) that those voting to leave would significantly outnumber the others but, as one Prime Minister of the ...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Making sense of the Referendum (and UK politics)

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The mood in England (less so in the other 3 parts of the UK – particularly Scotland) seems this past week to be consolidating around wit...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Why immigration is the only issue in this referendum

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One issue has dominated the British referendum debate of the past few months - and that is immigration. Those wanting Britain to rema...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Referenda or Neverenda??

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Richard Dawkins is a name to conjure with – Professor of Evolutionary Biology, author of numerous books and a great sceptic….. He has jus...