My grandmother goes through her life with a sense of purpose, which is served every moment of the day. Whether she is paying a bill or attending a concert, it is what she is doing. Nothing will distract her from her task. From rising at 5.00 am, whereupon she immediately sets to work doing paperwork…
BBC MISLEADING ABOUT MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIER The Global Warming Policy Forum has criticised the BBC for misleading the public about the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. In its numerous reports online, on radio and on television, the BBC has blamed the melting of this Antarctic glacier on climate change. However, the BBC’s reports do not…
JUST A THOUGHT … What if it turned out that traditional Christian morality is the template for “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”? John Stuart Mill’s formula offered as a rational substitute for the “unfounded” superstitious dogmas of received religion is in fact impossible of rational application to the chaos (as in “chaos” theory)…
A RECKONING When a generation startsto tiptoe awayalmost imperceptibly,one misses the presenceof old friends one didn’t seevery often, and that, too,is sad. A reckoning is due. I should have saidHow glad I was of you. THERE’LL COME A DAY There’ll come a day when I’d giveanything to see you standing therein the kitchen,…
