Both the atomist and the stoic traditions were eclipsed by a very different conception of God, the Christian god, an unchanging intelligence just like us, but without our frailties, an all-powerful Father, presiding over a singular cosmos. How did this happen? Plato insisted on a creator-god who made only one universe. Aristotle also favoured a …
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The text below is to be found on Wikipedia and concerns the sovereignty of Parliament. It is important because it could be true that a vote in both houses of Parliament could constitutionally overturn Brexit. I am no lawyer, let alone a constitutional lawyer, but it would seem that only Parliament created and passed the …
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“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)
Yesterday was the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. One million men were killed in that gruesome battle alone. One of the principle reasons for the creation of the EU and its predecessors, after all the slaughter, the cruelty and the wasted resources, human and material, in the 20th …
Emails revolutionised working life, providing an instant way to communicate without picking up the phone. “Then everyone started using them”, and they became the bane of our lives. Last year, some 74 trillion missives were sent – the equivalent of 2.4 million a second: “many are unsolicited and pointless” but, since we are “a polite …
