Top Trumps
The next people to face the Dragon’s Breath are a young man from Swindon [pause for sneer], called Bobbie and a young woman from Middlesbrough…
Articles by Don Trubshaw
Personal Authority and the Social Contract in the ‘Crisis of Freedom’
The concept of freedom, which has held sway in the West for at least the past 250 years and been a feature, particularly in the English-speaking world, for much longer, is now under attack on multiple fronts.
Sic Gloria Transit Mundi
Two slight acquaintances are seated in a Roman bathhouse: Gaius Julius? Sextus Lividicus; my wife knows your wife Hm How is your wife? Taken to…
Understanding How Institutions Become Radicalised and What Can be Done
When societal peace is considered as the management of the precursors and preconditions of conflict – a more realistic proposition than being the absence of…
A Midwinter Day’s Nightmare or “Down the Pan”
By Billy Shakestick Dear listener, draw near. I have a tale of intrigue in the affairs of states, mendacity in high office and of the…
The Stars at Night: Music of the Spheres
HelloandwelcometoanotherepisodeofStarsatNightwithmePatrickMoore. ThethemefortonightsshowisTheMusicoftheSpheres. NowImmoreofaBeethovenfanmyself, butmyfirstguestthiseveningisrathernimblefingeredonthe-elec-tric-gui-tar, aswellasanaccomplishedastronomerandagoodfriend, Brian May HeLLO GLAS…tonbury….good to be here, Patrick. Not just a friend, You’re my best friend NowtheBBCinitsinfinitewisdom has decreed thatasaconditionofnotlaunchinganasteroidattheshow,…
Trouble on Lineland
It’s all go on the internetwork this morning Things are starting to move at Lineland “work” station Danny the desktop is having his buttons pushed…
Review: False Alarm: How climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet.
Bjorn Lomborg (New York, NY: Basic books, 2020) For a long time, there has been no real centre ground politically on climate change: either you…
Do you have the right to be wrong? A defence of free inquiry
“If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our…
Winterval Greetings
By Humbuggery I hear that Boris has cancelled Christmas. Well, good. Finally, the oppressors are oppressing themselves, which is the good news. As my contribution…