Blow it up your nose
It’s probably too early to settle on how the Gove revelations will affect his leadership campaign, but as of today it seems like there’s and awful lot of criticism, hypocrisy,
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Category: Thought for the day
Just what pops into my head, mostly formed from some kind of calamity, often with a prayer attached, and usually making little sense except at that very moment.
“Nigel Farage defends Ann Widdecombe over gay therapy comments”
Brexit party leader criticises ‘hounding’ of MEP by media and politicians I read lots of news. It is kind of a hobby, you could say. I read because it is
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Question time
Socrates may have been one, but Pyrrho certainly was (b ca 360BCE), and even further back, Xenophanes (b ca. 570 BCE). Sophists probably could be described similarly: skeptics. Originally based
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What is Populism? by Jan-Werner Müller
I’ve been trying to get to grips with Populism for ages. Before the debacle of 2016. Way back, perhaps whenever UKIP became something to be responded to rather than just
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What is it about Brexit?
I participate in a Facebook Debating Forum. It is a mostly geographical forum, based around my town, but has for the past months, like so much on Facebook, it seems,
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Giving it all away: Mt 6:25-34
“We are bombarded by advertising in every working hour, in every possible medium and in every single space…” (Easter Pilgrim Day 16) The middle class cry of “Too many adverts!
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