Category Philosophy
COVID-19 | A MORAL MAZE
Pressure is mounting to enforce the lockdown-equivalent of super-gluing every citizen in the land to their living room sofa to prevent us all from dying of COVID-19. One has to question the morality of blanket, state-enforced lockdowns. Holding the Contrary View One of the drawbacks of being a lockdown sceptic – I’m one of them […]
COVID | AN EARLY CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
At the time of writing, Scotland’s National Clinical Director (who’s a dentist in fact, but there you go) has just told me to ‘get your digital Christmas ready’. How exciting! On Professor Leitch’s Wikipedia page, under ‘Awards and Honours’, Prof Leitch is attributed with being ‘The Grinch who stole Christmas 2020’. We shouldn’t be surprised […]
FREEDOM OF SPEECH | SCOTLAND’S HATE CRIME BILL
Three years ago this month, on Monday 22 May 2017, twenty-two people were massacred, and 139 people were wounded by a suicide bomber at the Manchester Arena. The victims were mainly teenagers and young people. At the time, I wrote a post on my blog challenging the impact of Islam on the British way of […]
LOTS OF MY BLOG POSTS RE-APPEARING | SORRY
Dear All If you follow my blog and you’re now getting deluged with notifications of posts, apologies. It’s because I’m converting a whole load of posts which I took down and which I’m now converting back to the public domain. I’ll explain why in a forthcoming post. Please forgive me if you’re being inundated with […]
I HAVE OF LATE, BUT WHEREFORE I KNOW NOT, LOST ALL MY MIRTH
Standby for the reactivation of my blog after a brief pause. I’ve been a tad overwhelmed by the extraordinary number of supportive messages I’ve received following my identification by a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) as an ‘abhorrent racist’. I received just the one message siding with Mr Anas Sarwar MSP. Therefore, under […]
PAUSE
On the heartfelt advice of family and one dear friend in particular (you know who you are 🙂) I’ve decided to Pause my blog for the time being. There, I do listen …
AT THE END OF THE WEEK
It’s Friday, the end of the week. This evening I’m mostly contemplating philosophy: the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. Or, to put it another way, as Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” So, this evening I’m examining my life (briefly). Starting work in the new year is […]
BREXIT | AN APPEAL TO THE ‘DON’T KNOWS’
Dedication This post is dedicated to my dear friend and Remain voter, Doctor A and his wonderful, feisty partner, J. Doctor A believes from his heart that the decision of the majority of British voters – that the UK should leave the European Union – was a dreadful mistake; one that we’ll live to regret. […]
EUROPE WARS: THE LAST BREXITEER & A CHRISTMAS CAROL
An open letter to Mr Douglas Ross MP, my Member of Parliament THE RESISTANCE You’ll be aware that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now on general release. I couldn’t help but draw a connection between the Star Wars film’s promotional blurb and the situation today as the UK seeks to extricate itself from the […]
FACEBOOK AND FRIENDSHIP
‘Friendship should be more than biting time can sever’ T S Eliot Interesting Times We live in febrile times – or interesting times as the Chinese proverb would have it. That said, some folk choose to take little or no interest in current affairs compared to others who (like me) do take an active interest […]
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