I am not the first and, with any luck, won’t be the last to comment on the latest load of bollocks from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The RCP, about as woke a bunch as you could imagine, have surpassed themselves with their latest ten-page booklet (about ten pages too long) the Green physician […]
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When I was a kid in the 60s, the only tattoos I was aware of were those on bonafide sailors, usually anchors, even in my children’s picture books and on TV’s Captain Pugwash. Also lowlife types often had ‘blue birds’ on their necks or ‘love’ and ‘hate’ on their knuckles or ‘mild’ and ‘bitter’ over
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The Church of England, an institution that is predicted to be extinct by 2062 by mathematician and R number analyst Dr John Hayward, is yet again doing its damned hardest to fulfil the prophecy. Recently, the Church announced a £100 million slavery reparations fund to provide investment in black British communities it claims are still
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On Saturday evening during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the narrowest of close shaves. He was shot in the upper ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who managed to fire eight rounds from an AR-15 rifle before being killed himself by a Secret Service sniper.
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is found in his magnum opus The Republic, is used to illustrate how humans are ignorant of ultimate reality. It was written as an imagined dialogue between Plato’s brother and his mentor Socrates. According to Socrates, humanity is like people who are chained in a cave in a position
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Some people have taken offence at my recent Facebook post about Greta Thunberg, which read: ‘Here she is again, the arch-manipulator, smirking and smug. Her family is super-rich. She crossed the Atlantic on a yacht loaned by a millionaire so she could pretend she wasn’t generating CO2. The Jehovah’s Witnesses must be kicking themselves. They’ve
(Photograph: DavidDjJohnson at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As someone infamous once said (me, need you ask?), ‘The truth is not mediated by the identity of the speaker’. If it were, one could sidestep debate entirely by identifying the ultimate victim status and taking umbrage accordingly. Increasingly devoid of argument, the Critical
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In 1849, a British sea captain called Frederick Forbes arrived in the West African kingdom of Dahomey. He had been sent by the British government to persuade King Ghezo to cease selling his fellow Africans whom he had captured in war to European slave traders. The British had banned slave trading in their empire in
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Sadiq Khan (no stranger to these pages), founder of the contentious ULEZ scheme, has once again sparked fury after imposing a rule which bans taxi, Uber and private hire drivers in London from flying England flags, as they may ‘distract’ motorists. Drivers have even been instructed not to have any stickers on the back of
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(Photograph: UK Prime Minister, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As a Scot my interest in international football competitions, such as the ongoing Euros in Germany, is usually non-existent or short-lived. This proved to be the case this week after Scotland was thumped in their opening game against Germany, and then continued not to
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