Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Why the reluctance to seek consensus?

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Few people realise the scale of money and civil service time spent on international jamborees which focus on issues such as  millennium g...
Monday, January 7, 2019

How will it all end?

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I have long had this naïve belief that the next non-fiction book I select will clear the fog of confusion which seems to hover in my mind...
Monday, December 31, 2018

The Search for the Holy Grail

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I’m proud   this last day of the year to present The Search for the Holy Grail – the 2018 posts – being the fourth annual collection of my...

America's lost soul

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It was, of course, Jimmy Carter whose words graced the last post.....uttered in 1979 at the height of America's fuel crisis. I've ...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

Another Teaser

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The (perhaps surprising) answer was - Dwight Eisenhower - in his final Presidential address of 1960!!  And let's see what you make of...

Seasonal Teaser

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 Who said this??? We . . . must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious reso...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Seasonal Taste

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Romanian wines seem at last – after almost 30 years - to be coming in from the cold. No fewer than three significant “events” occurred in t...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Why is the UK media coverage of Brexit so superficial?

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The recent post about Brexit was a long one simply because most of the British commentary about the issue is so superficial – tending to fo...