Arts
On the Fringe at The Fringe
After an absence of six years I finally returned for my annual Edinburgh Fringe holiday. In the past I went religiously every year prior to taking on my doctorate and whilst I missed going for [more…]
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Visit To A West End Musical
[FACT] Coming from a family with an ancestral musical heritage I was taught to appreciate all types of music and although I can’t hold a note or play an instrument, unlike other members of my [more…]
Literature
Sky News: ‘Why cant we give these Refugees, shelter from the storm??’
SkyNews Starting off with a sacchrin sweet Richard curtis Style report on refugees rescued in the Med before Seamlessly mixing in David Cronenberg disturbing images of Refugees from Libya , bobbing about on the high [more…]
Health
A (Libyan) Bridge Too Far
This is under a Nom de Plume or rather a Nom de Pixel, but many of you will know me by my usual commenting persona. The reason being, well why not? And you never know. [more…]
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“Everyone is a Nazi!” The Balkanisation of Politics
The Poison of Identity Politics Identity politics is the in thing. This is the idea that who you are determines where you are on the political spectrum. How you think and feel about things should [more…]
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The Internet is Simple, Part Three
“File:PGP message.svg” by Cqdx is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 You will probably want to read Part One and Part Two of this series before continuing… We’ve talked about asymmetric and symmetric encryption keys here [more…]
20th Century
John Enoch Powell, MBE
If time could be conflated and the men of yesteryear come face to face with those of today…. I have sometimes wondered what JEP would say if he was here to speak to our present [more…]
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The Weaponisation of History
I was lucky enough to have a couple of excellent teachers and lecturers for History during school and University. They emphasised two important points on why History was so important. First, that history is written [more…]