Over the past few years I have been spending more timing thinking and reading about the prophets of ancient Israel such as Ezekiel, Elijah, Jonah, Isaiah, Daniel and Jeremiah among others. Joining the GP brotherhood [more…]
But for Barker’s invention (plagiarising?) of the pneumatic lever that Cavaillé-Coll had made such use of in St. Sulpice, such vast organs, using such high wind-pressures, would not have been practicable – no organist would [more…]
When Barrack Hussein Obama got elected and became President of the USA in 2009, almost the first thing he did was opening a new chapter in our relations with the Muslim world. In his much [more…]
A couple of years back I nearly killed myself and wound up at the Priory. It quite literally saved my life. On the face of it I had it all; wife, kids, good job, nice [more…]
At some time in the run up to the second Gulf war, Germany got to chair the UN security council. That’s just one of these things that happen at the UN, I suppose, because apart [more…]
Published by The Random House Publishing Group [US] and Allen Lane [UK] (2007); Penguin Books (2008) ISBN 978-0-141-03459-1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn’t shy away from voicing his opinions, even when they lead to controversy. One [more…]
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast; Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity [more…]
The first of the Good Friday Collects Almighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the [more…]
By about 1850, not only had large numbers of Cathedral Organs been re-built, incorporating the latest mechanical contrivances, and improvements in terms of type and range of sounds, but many Parish Churches, too, had had [more…]
Buddha and Half a Pomegranate THE Lord Buddha had announced that on a particular day he would receive alms with his own hands for the support of the poor and the unfortunate, and had begged [more…]
There might seem some disjunction between this discourse’s subject, and Passion Sunday, if so, I apologise. In 1956, the existence of the Neutrino was affirmed in the journal Science, although it had been postulated [more…]
Scruton discussing the European Union and the nation state, November 2015 Back in the ‘90s, I remember having a forthright conversation with a mover and shaker in a pressure group called the European Movement. I [more…]
What I’ve always liked about civil aviation is its being so civil. Or at least it used to be until somethings abruptly changed, post 9/11. I remember a time when airfares where so frightfully expensive [more…]
I looked at some of these videos where they put another head over a bit of film and I thought; “that seems to wobble about a bit, I wonder how they do that because I [more…]
Not, you might think, a very likely headline these days, but, go back a few centuries, and that’s how the Kentish Guardian & Canterbury Recorder might have put it… [from oure Ultra-montane Scribe in [more…]
It might be my star sign that causes me to have a love for people as a species but then I love everything walks or slithers. When I consider people I can’t help but see [more…]
Pascal’s ‘Wager’ Psalm: My Text today: I Kings 19: 11 -13 I was reflecting a while ago on Pascal’s ‘Wager’ Argument. You know, the one that runs, roughly, ‘If you were asked whether you would [more…]
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