International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, August 2022 In Part One, I just about managed to shoehorn two days of the fantastic Festival. Before I carry on telling you about the rest, a quick gallop though [more…]
In the course of history there sometimes occurs events that are monumentally important yet were hardly noticed by much of the world at the time. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 went [more…]
Climate I think most of us accept that the world climate is mostly out of our control and the sun will do what the sun wants to do. There are local changes, but these are [more…]
Some seven years ago, after experiencing the dizzying effects of a very low pulse rate, I was given a pacemaker and, as an anti-clotting precaution, a blood-thinning medicine, which I was taking for several years [more…]
Introduction This is an additional article as I had no idea what to write when starting this series, and it held me up months. The article draws mainly on Peter Hitchens – A Brief History [more…]
It’s been a tumultuous couple of months in UK politics. After a troubled time in office, plagued by scandal, internal party frictions and much public embarrassment, Boris Johnson exited the stage leaving behind a big [more…]
Introduction I think this article will be a popular one. How do we deal with people wanting to come and live in arguably what was the best country in the world? Please use @Jerry Mandarin [more…]
We seem to be desperately retreating from the age of enlightenment where science was based on evidence & philosophy drove social progress. My main comment on my Twitter Feed now is ‘the madness continues’. The [more…]
Brief history of welfare One way or another we have always had welfare. The family unit looked after each other to the best of their ability. Religious communities made it a point to care for [more…]
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