In Western philosophy, the theory of infinite worlds dates back 2500 years to the “atomists” of ancient Greece. For philosophers like Leucippus, Democritus and Epicurus, the universe was composed of microscopic atoms, moving eternally in a void, colliding haphazardly with one another until they formed a vortex. In this vortex, the heavy elements clustered together …
People find meaning in work in six main ways; which aspects people find most important depends on them and their society AUTHENTICITY Going to work makes you feel you are accessing your “true self” – maybe that you are following a calling or can be yourself. AGENCY You are able to make significant decisions and …
“You have to take money where you find it, from the poor. OK, they don’t have much money, but there are a lot of them”. (French writer Alphonse Allais, quoted in The Guardian)
In case you haven’t noticed, the political vitriol in Britain is being stoked by straightforward lies in the press. Typical is the Guardian, which is conducting a character assassination campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn Cornyn was launching a review into the Labour party’s supposed “anti-semitism crisis” – a bogus crisis blown up to discredit …
After I posted yesterday’s piece about the Battle of the Somme I came across, by accident, the following letter to The Guardian, which expresses my feelings as a historian rather better than ever I could manage myself. It reminds the reader what the EU was originally designed to achieve: “In my lifetime I have seen …
