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A retired academic, Jeremy will contribute article on subjects that attract his interest. More Posts

Life lessons

One of the things that irritates me about the modern younger generations in the 21st Century is their now almost-universal sense of entitlement. Much of the blame in my view can be laid at the door of the human race’s ever-advancing science and technology and specifically the all-pervasive social [...]

July 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Just another notch on the “strange times” belt

Mention has been made of it before on this organ but my subject today is the irony of some of the ‘interest group’ reactions, justified or not, to the Covid-19 crisis. Few would argue that the actions taken by the Government have been exemplary, timely or uniformly correct, despite its attempts [...]

July 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with the world

I approach my subject for today – the current “Let’s contextualise, or preferably rid the world, of every symbol that could be deemed to represent or celebrate a nation’s historical past that is contrary to – or out of touch with – modern sensitivities” movement that is sweeping [...]

June 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The state of opinion forming (not informed opinion)

My contribution today comes from my perspective as a privileged, white, sixty-something male with no particular political axe to grind – which description in itself probably marks me as someone who has as many weaknesses (and lack of appreciation of the world’s problems) in terms of his genes, [...]

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

What’s Going On – as Marvin Gaye might have sung …

To borrow a phrase, democracy is a many-splendoured thing but also – as to paraphrase Churchill – that is, if it wasn’t one of those clever/profound bon mots he didn’t actually say or write but which people fondly attribute to him because it sounds like the sort of thing he might have [...]

May 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hysteria has pulled into town

Last weekend – from personal experience – I found myself drawing inexorably towards the view that the British public had either gone mad and/or, fuelled by boredom, frustration and perhaps a sense of “Oh, what the hell …?”, had begun to ignore the Government’s “Stay Home, Protect the [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s all going a bit weird

When I went out for my one per day exercise walk yesterday I was both surprised and dismayed by what I came across – and that’s allowing for the fact that it was early afternoon, possibly a peak time for others to be doing similar. To be blunt it was as if I’d been asleep for a month, there [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

There are always some, aren’t there?

It would seem that – no doubt fuelled in part by the media’s constant thirst for news stories and general frustration at three weeks of lockdown – the number of UK Covidiots is gradually increasing. See here for a vivid example, as reported by Colin Dury for – THE INDEPENDENT Amidst the [...]

April 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

On addressing tough subjects

A fascinating aspect of the Coronavirus crisis is the light it has directed upon the humanity’s attitudes to mortality and death. This is a tricky subject because it simultaneously touches upon the fact that every living species goes about its daily business from a starting point that death is [...]

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections on a sunny day

Maybe it’s because I’ve got too much time on my hands during the lockdown but I’m beginning to get irritated by both aspects of the coverage of the current crisis and some of the ironies about the world that the UK experience has highlighted. Let me give some examples. Arguably, because of [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

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