Is Trump another Hitler?
Facebook currently carries a large number of memes comparing Trump to Hitler. The trouble with this kind of unclear thinking is that it makes it more difficult to see what Trump…
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“Science is not a liberal conspiracy”
The title of this blog is an aphorism coined by Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson, the American astrophysicist and populariser of science. Tyson has taken on the mantle previously worn…
I never thought I’d apologize to the CIA but . . .
I never in my wildest nightmare thought I’d ever feel the need to apologize to the CIA – but here we are. This sorry tale begins last Monday when The Washington Post – once…
Conspiracy theorists go ape-shit
In October 2016, shortly before the US Presidential election, Wikileaks released a batch of emails that had been hacked from the Democratic Party’s campaign to elect Hillary…
The new emancipation
In 1865, at the end of one of the most brutal wars in history, the United States Congress voted to free slaves. In theory emancipation brought freedom to more than 3 million…
When the truth lies
Perhaps the most interesting and least discussed aspect of the EU referendum result is that it was a total failure of government public relations or propaganda. Those who voted to…
Is the Media corrupt?
One of the commonest complaints from Remain supporters following the Brexit referendum, and from Democratic supporters following the US Presidential Election, was that voters have…
Marxism versus Spencerism
The fierce social media ding-dong over Brexit did have one entirely unexpected result for me – I gained a new insight into the perennial debate about Marxism versus Capitalism.…
Down with freedom
It’s a curious aspect of freedom in a civilized society that almost everyone complains that the press has too much freedom, but very few complain that we have too much of any…
Do we really need the EU single market?
Twenty years ago, the single market benefited British companies in their overseas trade. The Common Market, as the EU then was, had no internal tariffs but a common external…