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Always Four Alternatives

Published: Wed, 02/21/24

People say some silly things, worse still, people repeat them. It used to be said that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. This idea…

The Morality of War

Published: Tue, 01/23/24

Last week I took a walk around St Martin’s cemetery on the west side of Beverley. As long term readers of my posts may remember I find cemeteries…

Reflections on being digitally erased

Published: Sat, 01/06/24

In my last post I reported that I was deleted from Facebook. I have since created a new account and have started building up my ‘friends’ network once…

Happy New Year

Published: Wed, 01/03/24

Happy new year and I hope that you had a better Christmas than we did. Our plan was to go to my sister and her family for Christmas day and stay so…

Herod and Netanyahu walk into a bar...

Published: Thu, 12/21/23

In the early 1980s my parents visited Israel. My father had always been rather pro-Israel, as were a lot of his generation. There were a lot of Jewish…

Why I didn't march for Gaza

Published: Sun, 11/19/23

A key principle of rune counselling (and probably any other divination method) is that you would be well advised not to do third party readings. By…

Just don't touch the third rail

Published: Mon, 10/30/23

Any one notice that, although the media has regular reports on ‘Israel’s war on Hamas’ almost no one is actually talking about it ,whether on social…

Don't take sides

Published: Sun, 10/22/23

There is a short film doing the rounds by the American comedian Ryan Long which makes a joke of how people think that ought to react to the events in…

The problem with Martial Arts

Published: Fri, 10/13/23

This time last week I was preparing to drive to Salisbury to lead a course on Saturday. We had si people attend, which seemed to be just the right…

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