Monthly Archives: November 2018

In Times of Rapid Change Do Conservatives Necessarily Go Nuts and Cease to be Conservatives?

I simply cannot understand how the conservatives I grew up with, who were pragmatic, un-dogmatic and open to reasoned argument, have been replaced by the Conservative barking mad Brexiters, and at one remove in the US, the Trump supporters and … Continue reading

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2008 Financial Crash and All That

So after 2008 we had a huge melt down of the global economy, which only resolute and smart but perhaps not wise intensive care by the US Federal Reserve saved the world from plunging into the return of the 1930s. … Continue reading

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Mansplaining: How to Tell if You Are

Thanks to Kim Goodwin for this: 

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Ombrophobia and Trump

Ombrophobia: an abnormal fear of rain apparently correlated with bone spurs.

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US Mid-Term Elections: A Personal Reflection

I am afraid that last night was nothing like as good as it should have been, especially the Senate result, which means Trump can now easily put judicial and Supreme Court appointments through and rig the courts.  But for me … Continue reading

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