Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Friday, 7 October 2016

World citizenship - a vain celebration of the 'one per cent's' power

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“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion i...
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Friday, 27 June 2014

On the power of the media...

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**** We are reminded by Alex Massie : Speaking of which, we might, when considering over-mighty media moguls remember that Murdoch is ...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Disappointment...

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**** The Coalition has done some fine things - free schools, started to sort out welfare, help the line on shoring up the economy, made so...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

As society becomes less religious I find myself profoundly unmoved

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**** Yesterday evening I watched two episodes of The Borgias - there I saw, just as I did reading Neal Stevenson (and others) work, The Mo...
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Saturday, 15 June 2013

EU regulations - we shouldn't laugh...we should cry...

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**** Chris Snowdon reminds us of the lunacy that is EU regulation : For example, the Commission wants to ban cigarette packs which are ...
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Thursday, 28 June 2012

The Banker's Dance

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It is like watching one of those symbolic war dances – a haka perhaps or more likely one of those morris dances with sticks. Lots of...
Friday, 18 March 2011

The Force of Nature - a meditation on hubris

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We think it can be controlled, directed, bent to our purposes. We believe we are above it - better, stronger, in control, responsible. We ...
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Friday, 22 October 2010

Fantasy politics - a world without the Party

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I have been reading one of those substantial, detailed fantasy epics. You know the sort – sweeping vistas, warring kingdoms, dark lords and ...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: A little Practical Magic

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Let’s begin this with a disclaimer. If you think practical magic is something to do with spells, charms or incantations then you’ve come to...
Thursday, 28 January 2010

Apple iPad - carved from the living earth and powered by pixies

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke , "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke...