Trump’s current behaviour is so bizarre that it has become the chief talking point at very meeting and every dinner party. His inopportune and cruel sacking of Jim Comey, head of the FBI, has had a dozen explanations, all contradictory, from the White House. So, for the benefit of non-American readers the following is a …
Breaking news: the U.S. Air Force is running out of ordinary bombs, smart bombs, and in some cases missiles. No kidding. The air war over Syria and Iraq that began in August 2014 and is now two-and-a-half years old has eaten through America’s supply of bombs. The usual crew of weapons makers evidently can’t produce …
Be warned, this is probably going to be quite a long post. My apologies in advance. I’ll try to be as concise as I can. But seeing as I’m British, I have a lot of strong opinions on this subject- opinions which I’ve largely refrained from expressing until now. Next week the Modern Philosophy series …
This is the second of my Epicurus and Modern Philosophy series. I will continue this series for many months to come, though I’m not sure if it’ll run as frequently as every fortnight. Whenever a post of mine is titled, ‘Epicurus and…’, then you know it’s part of the Modern Philosophy series. I’ll also be frequently …
I have in the past pointed to the projected growth of the global population – from seven billion to 11 billion by 2100 – as a major environmental problem. But a bigger population crisis, from the ecological point of view, concerns not humans but farm animals, whose numbers are growing twice as fast. Raising livestock …
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