A lovely tribute to Keith Floyd in the Telegraph. I just started playing again, after a break of something like eight years. So on Saturday, I’ll be a few weeks from my 49th birthday and playing second row in the … Continue reading
A couple of months ago, I deleted a comment from this blog. It was posted anonymously and accused Tim Ireland of being a paedophile – Ireland has made this detail public himself, or I wouldn’t repeat it. It was plain … Continue reading
Chris says he is surprised that Tim and I: … in denying that people have some kind of natural right to the fruits of their labour… are throwing out the libertarian baby with the Marxist bathwater. Tim made a: purely … Continue reading
On Sunday, between 6:00 and 6:30pm, I stood in Trafalgar Square as part of the Iran Solidarity campaign: I won’t preach about it here, either you’re concerned about other people’s freedom as well as your own, or you’re not. If … Continue reading
John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison. Just because. It’s brilliant.
What? I mean, WHAT? Michael Yon has been providing despatches from embeds with UK troops, offering a standard of writing and insight – and just plain information – we get nowhere in the conventional media. His embed just ended abruptly. … Continue reading
A quick note on Norm’s response to my post about property rights. In this, Norm said: Peter takes me to be saying more than I intended to in that post: to be commending desert as a criterion of ownership, and … Continue reading
JuliaM reported disapprovingly, a few days ago, about a protest mounted by British Humanists against a creationist zoo that has opened near Bristol: The Noah’s Ark Zoo, in Wraxall, near Bristol, is accused by the British Humanist Association (BHA) of … Continue reading
Arab News reports: Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday they will charge an Arab cultural group under hate speech laws for publishing a cartoon that suggests the death of 6 million Jews during World War II is a fabrication. The public prosecutor’s … Continue reading