Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Just for tonight….

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T his blog is time limited. By the time you get round to reading it, it may well not be worth reading (if it ever is). I have been inspired ...
Sunday, 31 December 2023

The blogging year…

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So, here we are. The last day of 2023. It’s been a year of 21 blog posts not counting this one. And although I confess it is a bit indulgent...
Monday, 27 February 2023

Tolerance and the public square…

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I confess I’m not really sure what is meant these days by “the public square”. There probably isn’t just one, and it probably isn’t a physic...
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, 26 November 2022

The neo-Babylonian captivity of (some) evangelicals

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Around September 1520, Matin Luther published a tract. Along with his other writings, he would be invited to repudiate it at the Diet of Wor...
Monday, 31 October 2022

Amateur Hour

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 It is hard to fathom the political pickle we are currently in. On this side of the Atlantic we (some of us) watched with horror as our frie...
Saturday, 16 July 2022

Bookending Boris

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As one layer of political dust falls out of the air and begins to settle, another cloud is kicked up by the shuffle of political feet, sting...
Saturday, 24 October 2020

Life in the Pandemic XIV: The fictional and the fake……

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I freely admit it. I’m a fan of Sorkin snappy dialogue. Aaron Sorkin is the screenwriter behind films like “A Few Good Men”, “Charlie Wilson...
Friday, 3 January 2020

Providence or judgement – it’s too early to tell

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In 1972, the then Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was widely misquoted as saying that it was too early to tell whether the French revolution had ...
Sunday, 1 September 2019

What’s all this about more debate?

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Here’s where my “remain” friends (and most of my friends voted remain) and me probably part company. I suspect most of them have been splu...