This is Part 2 of a two part Blog, and should be read after Part 1. We have seen that within three years of the start of World War II,...

The following is a large excerpt from the Prologue from The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner , by Daniel Ellsberg...

Shortly after President Clinton left office, he gave a series of lectures around the world to augment his obviously meagre income. One of...

I feel another serious homily coming on, having just seen Oliver Stone's interesting revisionist US history documentaries on Netflix, and...

The Issue We are increasingly used to ‘society’ agreeing to impose restrictions on the freedom of the whole population on the basis that...

There are dog people, and cat people; there are gin people and vodka people; then there are tea people and there are coffee people. I am...

There was a time when philanthropy was an essential element in our society, in the days when the government and the landed gentry...

20 years ago, if you asked for a gin and tonic in a UK pub, you would get one (or if lucky, maybe two) ice cubes in a thin tall glass, a...

Recently re-watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, and researching around the subject, I found a number of documentaries on my remastered...

In my teens, on my birthday, I was always taken to London for the evening by my father, Ron. We would go to have a curry at one of his...

As I stated several Blogs ago, whilst undertaking a law degree at the University of Sussex I had to study a variety of non-legal...

A few days ago this graph kept popping up on social media: It is a graph originally taken from the Financial Times, and modified with...

I have always found the way that a conversation can develop and migrate from topic to topic over minutes and hours to be fascinating....

I was a voracious reader as a young teenager. I had read pretty much through everything that looked interesting to me in the children's...

Why start a Blog now? I am 65 and pretty busy, this may well be the last thing I need. To be honest, its partly because of Covid-19 -...

I only really imagined that this Blog would be seen by people who already know who I am; but if you have wandered here by accident here...