Reflections

Skunk as a Lord?

February 3, 2012
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Skunk: A person regarded as obnoxious or despicable. Sir Fred has been shredded. But it was done with considerable input from a political lynch mob, and as a symbol of the banksters (= banker + gangsters), and I’m left with more questions than answers. Was it a correct decision, and was it made on a [...]

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How do pet!

February 1, 2012
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So bus drivers aren’t allowed to be friendly any more. That seems to be my impression of the news that Brighton and Hove‘s bus drivers have been banned from uttering friendly greetings. Not just told to only say such words to their regular customers or to their friends, but actually banned. It is now verboten [...]

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What was the best ever British made mini series?

January 4, 2012
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I truly detest television at Christmas. Most of the year I find it merely worthless and annoying, but at Christmas with all its faux bonhomie and general shut down and when there is not much else to do I truly do detest it. It is like white noise. It invariably fails to deliver anything of [...]

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Hitchens and Dawkins are completely right. Except that they are completely wrong…

January 3, 2012
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Penning the recent review of the year argument I was prompted to reflect on the death of the late Christopher Hitchens. Polemicist, wit, writer, commentator and orator, he was a free and independent thinker when conforming to the (usually politically correct) script and staying “on message” is the norm. He also appears to have been [...]

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Too much law, too little evidence?

November 1, 2011
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Vincent Tabak is now behind bars for murder, rather than for manslaughter. That is important. It does not bring back his victim, Joanna Yeates, and it will not end her family’s suffering. Indeed the vile Tabak put them through hell by forcing the family to endure the trial. That must have been an appalling ordeal [...]

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How To Be Sectioned, Part 2

October 30, 2011
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A few weeks ago I wrote an inconsequential piece about a strange experience in which I underwent a so called “peak” experience. My conclusion was that this was a real phenomenon which was created by a potent mix of exercise, joy, excitement and being in a natural environment which created a flood of endorphins and [...]

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Marat/Sade

October 25, 2011
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I understand from the MSM that hundreds of people have been leaving a Royal Shakespeare Company‘s show early, during the interval in fact. When you hear of people leaving the theatre early you naturally come the logical conclusion that the play must be crap. The MSM seem to think that it’s because the play is [...]

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