Arts
Flounce !!!
To some, this article will come as a major surprise as my demise has been exaggerated somewhat. For those of you who were concerned as to my well-being, a big thank you and a hug. [more…]
Rookwood
Authoritarianism
Evil beyond measure
Mrs R and I have a mutual friend of many years who knows both of us extremely well. For the sake of brevity, let us call her “A”. This came home when we were having [more…]
Authoritarianism
Burning heretics
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” We live in very strange times indeed. The United Kingdom applies some of the most draconian libel laws in the Western world, while [more…]
Politics
The weaponisation of dignity
Something has been gnawing at my guts for some considerable time now. We all pretty much agree that situation ethics, political correctness, the religion of woke and various other cultural weapons have pockmarked the edifice [more…]
Literature
Maintaining the status quo – the condemnation of the conspirational
Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripdes OK, I admit it. I am a conspiracy theorist. Or more accurately, a conspiracy realist. The synonyms for theorist include logician, [more…]
Conservatives
Conservatives
What a mess
I love my pressure cooker. It is one of these gadgets that I would probably, quite foolishly, consider rescuing from a house fire or flooding incident. They must be treated with respect though, and there [more…]
Elections
SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 9
It has been quite a while since I visited this topic, and looking back on my prior eight musings has given me the inspiration to rehabilitate the topic as it hasn’t really gone away. While [more…]
Politics
Ukrainian War Eagles
Two War Eagles, Paula Dobriansky and Richard Levine, emphatically argue in today’s Wall Street Journal the reasons NATO (and therefore the U.S.) must wage an active direct proxy war against Russia: We cannot pretend a [more…]