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Being offended
Posted on January 16, 2022 1 Comment
Society is full of people who appear to be offended by so many things. In our ‘woke’ times (horrible term) it is apparently necessary to take offence at the slightest thing, often when the object of the offence has little to do with the person claiming to be offended. It is a little like people […]
Of Human Bondage
Posted on December 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
I enjoyed Spinoza when I read him as an undergraduate. I had some feeling for his interpretations of god and human behaviour. He was a rationalist, which fitted my youthful desires to understand the universe. He was a sort of pantheist, with god being everywhere and everything rather than being a bored bearded old chap […]
‘To read without joy is stupid’
Posted on November 27, 2021 Leave a Comment
The title is a quotation by John Edward Williams, a US novellist I knew nothing about until a couple of days ago when Sue showed me his novel, Butcher’s Crossing, in Derby Waterstones. On the back it suggested that this was a book that influenced Cormac McCarthy, so as a fan of McCarthy I bought […]
Time to end the Covid restrictions?
Posted on October 7, 2020 Leave a Comment
I have thought for some time that the Covid restrictions are possibly more dangerous to our health than allowing Covid to run its course ‘naturally’. The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD, https://gbdeclaration.org/) comes at a critical time, when governments are imposing yet more restrictions on movement, meetings and economic activity. For those who have missed the […]
Rural rides
Posted on April 21, 2020 Leave a Comment
In the early 19th Century William Cobbett rode around England to find out about the attitude of rural people towards the corn laws. It is time for our politicians to do the same. There is a big difference between urban and rural areas of the UK. The new law on lockdown is clearly designed for […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 