Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, 22 August 2025

On “Losing my religion”….

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I am a mandolin player. Or perhaps more accurately I should say that I play the mandolin. On this side of the Anglo-Saxon Atlantic, mandolin...
Friday, 24 January 2025

Reading for 2025 (so far...)

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  How long does it take for a tradition to become a tradition? I have no idea. But I think I'll stick with one that began only twelve mo...
Saturday, 30 November 2024

“Was Jesus a Jew?” (and other matters)….

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I would like to stress that the above question is not mine, b ut one that was put to me this week. It was not asked by someone trying to be ...
Saturday, 6 January 2024

"Of the making of books......"

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A new year, and a new pile of books has appeared (as if by magic). It is just a little pile for the moment. One of them is part of a longer ...
Saturday, 15 July 2023

Keswick 2023.1 I’m probably beginning to repeat myself

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This definitely isn’t the first time I’ve commented on the Keswick Convention (last year's posts begin here ), and it probably won’t be...
Sunday, 26 March 2023

The tyranny of the present…..

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Although time can be used as an accusation (as in “you’re living in the past”), we appear to be suffering from a different problem at the mo...
Friday, 17 February 2023

A “Kennedy moment” in Scotland

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I was on a train from Glasgow to Edinburgh last Wednesday, and had just logged on to the in-train Wi-Fi, when the news broke. Nicola Sturgeo...
Saturday, 28 January 2023

Remembering not to forget

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Last night, at the close of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK, I watched the film “Denial” again – it’s currently available on the BBC I-Pla...
Friday, 24 June 2022

Below the surface.....

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There have been some scary headlines recently. Yesterday’s Daily Mail Scottish addition (we’re back in the homeland on a visit) all but decl...
Friday, 28 May 2021

Life in the pandemic XXVI Words and the “death” of postmodernism

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I have led a fairly sheltered intellectual and academic existence, just one of many advantages working on the science side of a modern Unive...
Thursday, 12 November 2020

Life in the Pandemic XV: The big story…..

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I’ve already confessed my liking for “The West Wing”, which for the record I’m continuing to enjoy. I know that at the very end of the umpt...