Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Holey knickers: Portugal's answer to Covid

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 A friend living in central Portugal tells us how coronavirus restrictions are operating there. Cafes are closed except for take-out, so the...
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Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Compare and contrast: how coppers take on God

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So it's not only the Germans who let power go to their heads. Balham, UK, on Good Friday, part of the most important festival in the Chr...
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Monday, April 05, 2021

Sir Alan Duncan talks pants, by Sackerson

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Sir Alan Duncan has been serialising parts of his political memoirs in the Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9431453/Minis...
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Sunday, April 04, 2021

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: Velodromes, by Wiggia

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                                    OLD VELODROMES NEVER DIE, THEY JUST FADE AWAY I wrote a piece on velodromes many years ago; this is not ...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Intellectuals

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I am still reading Tuvia Tenenbom , who describes himself as a 'recovering intellectual,' and would like to share this with you. The...
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Friday, April 02, 2021

(GOOD) FRIDAY MUSIC: Easter medley, by JD

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The existentialist, Albert Camus, argues that if there is no faith, there can be no hope for us, and if there is no hope for us, then we are...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

Doublethink

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 Social media teach us that facts and logic make very little difference in argument. The Israeli-born (now US-based) writer Tuvia Tenenbom h...
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