I meditated well this morning. I do sometimes. As I should. I’ve been practicing for nearly 14 years. You would have thought I had got my head round it by now. After all, it only took me 13 years to knock off school. But meditation, it turns out, is harder than readin’, ‘writin’ and ‘rithmetic. […]
The Illusion of Control Read More »
What our cavemen ancestors thought of the animals among which they lived their lives, we cannot tell. Neither left us any written records to decipher. But since a sabre-tooth tiger could do as much damage to us as we could do to it, it is reasonable to assume that, to the humans of the day,
Authority and Power Read More »
Is this an official order to self-declare yourself as being on the wrong side of the law? If only the Police had time to investigate, arrest, bang you to rights and then fine you or the Crown Prosecution Service choose to send you to Court (or perhaps issue a Lammyesque Jury-free automatic sentence)? Presumably it
Please Let Us Know If You’re A Criminal Read More »
It was the middle of the night when a large minibus with blackened windows, together with a police escort, made its way down the driveway to Crowborough army training camp. It was clear that this arrival had been carefully planned to protect the interests of those in the minibus and of their ‘handlers’ – in
How the Government Betrayed Crowborough Read More »
Like many of you I am sure, my inbox is constantly besieged by scammers; con artists, whose lame attempts to get rich quick via the intellectually challenged are the fraud equivalent of the dick pic. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve nothing against a really good scam in principle – Brigitte Bardot types who successfully convince
Scamming the Scammer: Almost as Much Fun as You’d Imagine Read More »
Hull City Council has approved the next phase of its district heating network, a low-carbon vision involving miles of pipes, years of roadworks, and a touching faith in the idea that everything will somehow work out in the end. Phase 1B has been waved through before Phase 1A is even up and running, which suggests
Hull’s Great Green Dig: Carbon Dreams, Flooded Streets, and Money to Burn Read More »
After a week of turmoil with opportunistic right-wing politicians jumping around in pursuit of a political billet which suits their ambitions better, perhaps the media can refocus on the right target i.e. the incumbent government. While the media dredges up past communications which prove how duplicitous politicians can be, the spotlight is diverted from Starmer:
Do You Believe Them? Read More »
Being born must be the most shocking thing that ever happens to you. All your experience up to that point is in a nice, temperature-controlled environment. It suddenly gets colder, possibly much colder. You are used to it being dark. It suddenly gets much brighter. The noises you have heard to date are those of
The Map and the Territory Read More »
A leading proponent of face masks as a means of countering the spread of respiratory infections appears to have changed her mind. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford – described as the “high priestess” of the face mask movement, who even appeared on her X feed wearing two face masks during the COVID-19 years –
Leading Mask Proponent Has Change of Heart Read More »
It’s been a while since I have gazed out at the world from the man cave, mid-December in fact. It has not stopped me writing, but a couple of ‘Silly Season’ columns were the best I could do. Now that we have cut steps across the frozen waste that is our garden to the man
From the Man Cave XXIV Read More »
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