Patrick and I talk about Enoch Powell
The latest Patrick Crozier/Brian Micklethwait recorded conversation is now up and listenable-to. We talk about Enoch Powell, of whom Patrick writes: Enoch Powell was a prominent politician in the 1960s...
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James Tooley talks about Really Good Schools
I’ve just listened to the whole of this podcast (which I encountered here), in which Paul E. Peterson talks (for a little over forty minutes) with one of my most favourite public intellectuals on the...
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Masked beast outside St Ermin’s Hotel
There must be a million statues with masks on them these days, given what these days are still like, but here’s the first one I have actually encountered on my recent photo-travels: Yet another...
View ArticleDiabolical Davies
I’ve just been catching up with my Facebook lurking, and therefore have only just come across this: I started listening and didn’t stop until it did. And I learned a lot. I really like how Davies...
View ArticlePatrick posted our conversation about Steve Stewart-Williams and evolution (...
I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
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When taxation is defenestration
Daylight robbery, … … via Mick Hartley, to whom thanks. For this guy, only the window tax is “daylight robbery”, because that’s the only tax he can photograph. Whereas, for this guy …
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London Fields creatures
And I don’t mean creatures to be seen in the fields of London. I mean creatures to be seen in a particular place in London called London Fields. Until recently, I knew London Fields only as the title...
View ArticleNational Geographic on the evidence for evolution
Following my recent medical disappointments, I have been pondering, as you do in such circumstances, the big questions. Like: What Do I Really Believe? And it turns out that one of the biggest things I...
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A choice that we all face these days
Yes, a favourite photo of mine, at the opposite end of the spectrum mentioned in this posting from the photo in that posting, is this one: I originally posted this photo, photoed in WH Smith Liverpool...
View ArticleAnother talk with Patrick
I seem to be settling down to doing one post here, every week, on a Monday. That feels like something I can do, without threatening the Samizdata writing, so here is this week’s posting. But what...
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