...ends in a whimper rather than a bang.
And betrays earlier integrity by indulging in what Freddy Ayer (in his criticism of moral propositions as unverifiable) "flag-waving"....
If so I hope the Spectator will forgive me and see this as a useful plug. This is a winning entry in a competition to write a poem with an "ingenious twist at the end"": "I’m honoured as a lifelong...
Anybody seen this? How do you think the issue about the teaching of sexual and family diversity is going to be resolved? Especially as the temperature will be raised further next year when it becomes...
... despite another great match on "Super Sunday, but one in which I had a personal interest. (Well done, Mr Djokovic, and commiserations tyou, Mr Federer, by the way. And thank you both.). But I...
Another fine piece of television showing that there are still tiny outposts of integrity and intellectual curiosity in the corrupt empire.
9.00 on BBC4 - first of a three-parter....
Watching a BBC4 recording I took some while ago about the Inca Empire, and just got the extraordinary claim by the historian presenting the program that the Incas could get a message from one city to...
Or at least a lot longer. Proposed by a scientist referring to genetic engineering of some sort. I have a preference for sticking around. Mainly out of curiosity: how is all this rubbish going to work...
An interview with Jessica Ennis (a previous VE favourite). Jessica has morphed into pathetic victim claiming that pregnant athletes need "more support". By whom? And why? Further in the interview:...
...or rather sit-down. And his sense of humour chimes exactly with that of the brightest and the best in one of Britain's premier universities. https://twitter.com/UJS_UK/status/1140545167704961024...
Just watched the final episode. What a pleasure this series was, and proof that the BBC can, if it [i]really[i] tries hard, produce programs of quality....
Just been watching Top ot the Pops for that year.
Hang about, this song ain't bad, is it? (Mr Cooke's daughter?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AOAap6_k4...
Last throw of the political die by Ms ("must leave a good legacy - last one didn't work") May. To be accomplished by 2050? Can all you economic experts and climate scientists who know with absolute...
Major news topic. Sky's New Preview discussing it now. I, as a young man, could - under pressure - give you a very long list of juvenile and older misdemeanours. (Most, but not all, would be matters...
Am I right or wrong in my observation that the participants in the Normandy landings were [i]exclusively[i] male? Might you have thought that at least Juno beach had a few feisty girls wading ashore?...