September 22, 2021
Nuts and bolts have a history. Something very like these were used in the hanging Gardens of Babylon, apparently. Jacques Besson, a French inventor, created the […]
September 22, 2021
Perhaps, like me, you have dipped into the Governance Review Group Report with a cocktail of emotions – wariness, Deja-vu, impending sense of gloom tipping into […]
September 18, 2021
When, around the year 200, Clement of Alexandria wrote Which Rich People Can Be Saved?, most Christians thought they couldn’t. When Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson […]
September 16, 2021
Seldom do the readings set for any one Sunday match the mood of the moment, still less the mood of the person preaching. Take harvest, for […]
September 2, 2021
We are just over halfway through a series of protests by Extinction Rebellion, focused on London and planned to last for two weeks. In successive days […]
August 18, 2021
For over 50 years scientists have been warning us that we need to change our ways. The agreements made at the Paris Conference (COP 21, in […]
August 6, 2021
I have finally got round to reading E J Mishan’s The Costs of Economic Growth, a book I bought for an Economics course in the 1970s. […]
July 24, 2021
The British Academy has announced the election of 84 new Fellows to its ranks, recognising contributions to a broad range of disciplines across the social sciences, […]
July 23, 2021
Space travel is back. Not, this time, as a ‘space race’ between superpowers, but as a leisure activity for billionaires. Is it a step forward? Towards […]