I am grateful for this path that others are convinced is so hard for me. It is true that I do not know the names of fine wines, their lineage and classifications. It is true that I could not tell you what a Riesling, Pinot Noir or a Cabernet Sauvignon is, nor whether one has …
Some words accompany us throughout our lives. For some, a song, a poem or a book. For me, a short text, found in the Christian bible. In the anglophone world, it is known as the Epistle of James; to the rest of the world, the Book of Jacob. I first encountered it as a searching …
At last, the British Government has an opposition. Something we could have done with four years ago and over the years since, but we are where we are. Hopefully the challenging questioning will continue, holding this awful regime to account at last for its record slashing, cutting and non-governing.
Seen a gory video on social media and feeling enraged? Stop. Pause. Breathe. Ask yourself some questions: Is it real? Are you sure it’s not street theatre, a clip from a film, an old TV advert, a video-game capture or manufactured propaganda? Is it new? Wasn’t the same clip making the rounds two years ago …
Tracking mortality over time – Update 28th April Note, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures differ from Public Health England (PHE) data, which only count COVID-19 deaths of people who have had a positive test result confirmed by a Public Health or NHS laboratory. PHE data does not include deaths of people who had COVID-19 …
They rail against the fabled mainstream media. But then forward me articles from the Daily Mail. They say social media has freed the masses from submitting to the MSM propaganda machine and believing its lies. But then they forward me YouTube videos that are pure make-believe. They chorus to the refrain, “It’s Islamphobia, it’s Islamophobia”. …
Ho hum, yet another video claiming to reveal The Truth™ is doing the rounds. This one an interview by London Real — a cultish conspirituality self-help movement, formerly purveyor of pyramid schemes — with Dr Andrew Kaufman, “unmasking the lies around Covid-19”. It turns out this Dr Andrew Kaufman is a big hitter in the …
This afternoon, my companion received a video via WhatsApp, forwarded onto her by a friend. This is worrying, she said, passing it onto me to investigate. The video featured a professional-looking man speaking to camera, a computer workstation by his side. He could have been a doctor, union rep or legal advisor. He starts with …
Towards the end of my undergraduate degree in International Development, I met with a representative of a development agency working overseas. To enquiries as to how we could help, she bluntly replied: we don’t need people with degrees in development; we need doctors, teachers, engineers, technicians…
My sincere supplication on your behalf: I pray that your 50,000 followers on social media haemorrhage away, enabling you to rediscover yourself, finding solace in obscurity, silence and isolation, far away from the maddening crowds, the lust to be known and the need to preach your peculiar wisdom to all. Come, join the fraternity of …
I think people keep mixing up science and dogma. Instead of saying, “We’re following the science,” the UK Government should really be saying: “We’re following our scientific advisors.” There is no “the science”, just scientific studies, of varying quality, depending on the field, assumptions and inputs. Science is not an absolute; it needs people to …
Clearly it is a Muslamic conspiracy. It started with forcing the whole nation to make wudu every time they sneezed. Then we saw clinicians donning turquoise jilbab — well those who could get it, anyway. Now they want to force the whole nation into niqab. And all you sheeple are sleepwalking straight into it. Wake up …
So we discover that the secular world is just as fanatical about its scholars as the religious, championing every eminent scientist that supports the political or ideologically position of the moment, trumpeting their seat in a glorious institution as evidence of veracity.
As I sit here, working away in my shed at the bottom of the garden, I have a tray of seeds beside me on the floor by the door, which periodically take my attention throughout the day. Over the past four days, the bean and corn seedlings have begun pushing through the compost, and already …
This is the time of year when we are reminded of the miracle of life. We plant tiny seeds in the earth and, lo, they sprout, pushing up through the soil, growing, perfectly formed, day by day, week by week, into magnificent plants. By the end of summer, we will be harvesting crops, if the …
