2021-01-30 17:14
I was looking at an online newspaper and enjoying the articles when suddenly the site stopped working – I couldn’t navigate to any other stories or continue reading th… Read More
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2020-07-05 13:28
Joh O'Nolan from Unsplash
When the television companies first learned that they would be broadcasting live matches from an empty stadium one of the first things they carefully considered… Read More
2020-03-09 14:53
What is pornography?
As soon as you read that question I suspect most of you would have intuitively formed an answer. My guess is you would classify pornography as images of a sexual natu… Read More
2020-02-19 14:37
Photo: Zbynek Burival from Unsplash
If your wealth and power is derived from the business of selling fossil fuels then this question is redundant.
If however you have no financial investme… Read More
2020-02-06 15:22
Tracy Brabin in the House of Commons
Tracy Brabin was recently the subject of much discussion on social media for wearing a particular garment in the House of Commons – it caused ou… Read More
2019-12-01 13:10
Say I’m an unbiased detective and someone has told me about the murder of a large media organisation that I only have knowledge of through news reports. I’m assigned to do the i… Read More
2019-05-21 10:38
Let’s ignore the fact that over 90% of scientists agree that climate change is man-made (most people thought the sun revolved around the earth at one time so consensus is not a guaran… Read More
2019-02-12 15:17
Photo: Filip Czech
In mathematics, infinity is considered an abomination. If a mathematician gets the result of infinity she will nearly always assume that the result is wrong and that there… Read More
2018-10-23 15:44
The weather forecast was for a freakishly warm day with unbroken sunshine and judging by the business of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park car park that Wednesday morning, many of the visitors… Read More
2018-03-01 10:45
I finally got round to watching this magnificent film.
And watching it is pretty much all you can do because the dialogue is so incoherent that it might as well be just another layer of no… Read More
2018-02-16 19:30
Photo: Clem Onojeg
After I’ve been to the toilet I always wash my hands. Data shows that most food poisoning is self-inflicted by handling food with contaminated hands.
After washing m… Read More
2017-12-03 14:48
FuYong Hua from Unsplash.com
It’s logical to assume that someone somewhere must have once had an original idea. Today it is said that no ideas are original; our exposure to creative… Read More
2017-08-07 17:38
Photo: John Pratt from Unsplash
The ten thousand strong crowd had been waiting for nearly an hour for the show to start. Most of them were absorbed in their phones, staring vacantly at glo… Read More
2017-05-07 14:15
Colston Hall is to be renamed. Some people in Bristol objected to the former slave trader being honoured for his contribution to the city.
Other people in Bristol think there is nothing w… Read More
2017-02-25 15:07
Original Tweet by Neil Claxton
On social media, MSM is usually short for Mainstream Media and refers to national TV news programmes like the Ten o’clock news and ‘red tops&rsqu&hell…Read More
2017-01-14 17:47
Step out of your comfort zone.
This is advice we hear all the time. If you’re a motivational speaker then this will be your core message. The fact that businesses pay huge sums of mo… Read More
2016-12-12 16:57
The number of charities, food banks and ‘pay what you feel’ café’s that utilise food that would otherwise have been thrown away is on the increase. At first glanc… Read More
2016-11-11 10:06
This is the on/off switch from our electric kettle. When we bought the kettle I could immediately see that the plastic switch was so inadequate for the job that it must have been deliberate… Read More
2016-10-23 13:13
On the day that The Sun’s highest paid journalist is sentenced to a jail term for perverting the course of justice the paper decides to attack one of Britain’s National Tre… Read More
2016-10-05 18:53
I recently gave an illustrated talk at a pop-up arts venue in York. The building they had commandeered was an old fire station complete with pole through the ceiling. To my astonishment the… Read More
2016-08-23 17:24
I’m appalled at the indifference most people express regarding the Edward Snowden revelations.
The general attitude seems to be, so what if the authorities know practically everything… Read More
2016-08-16 20:29
The cabbage-white butterfly dances provocatively above the purple-sprouting broccoli plants in the hot July sunlight. The butterfly doesn’t know it but the broccoli plants are mine.
I… Read More
2016-07-22 11:37
I got some kind of group invite through my email account which didn’t work properly because the operating system on my computer is too old to deal with it. I only discovered it was a… Read More
2016-06-03 13:43
I was at my local lending library looking for a book to read when I spotted a Wilbur Smith hardback on the shelf. Wilbur Smith had written River God, a book I literally couldn’t put d… Read More
2016-05-02 12:11
I was working at an unfamiliar hotel one evening and as I always do when I visit such a venue, I casually glance at the pictures on the walls. Often, if it’s a modern, chain hotel, the… Read More
2016-03-26 18:15
On the insistence of my daughter, I accompanied her to the cinema to watch a new Disney film. As we waited for the film to start, the adverts and trailers beforehand contained a more instruc… Read More
2016-01-15 10:44
Our sense of smell is being revealed as an undiscovered super-sense; we can detect Parkinson’s disease just by someone’s scent, we can follow a scent-trail when blindfolded and w… Read More
2016-01-02 13:06
In this article, John Gray surmises that Richard Dawkins feels a knighthood is the least reward he should receive for his efforts in trying to rid the world of religion (it’s a suppos… Read More
2015-12-16 11:26
As a child I remember going along to our local cinema to watch the Saturday morning ‘flicks’. In one of the episodes, Batman was in a truck that then drove off a cliff… Read More
2015-11-27 18:10
Why should you think for yourself?
Knowledge is Power. Actually, it isn’t. Knowledge is pretty useless. The actions you instigate as a result of having knowledge are what give kn… Read More
2015-11-20 17:58
On the perfect flat-line of calm, a blip appears:White sails cresting the horizon signal the beginning of new lifeMagick’d out of the fecund ocean and currentsThe blip gets bigger, com… Read More
2015-11-18 13:12
There are no absolute truths and everything lies on a continuum.
The expression of grief for the victims of the Paris attack is not being criticized here: many people in Europe will have… Read More
2015-10-31 18:50
Imagine this scene: a group of city-states existing in peace and harmony and trading goods, services and culture between themselves.
Now imagine that one city-state sees the wealth of the ot… Read More
2015-10-12 11:56
Evolution creates organisms that can change the planet—stromatolites and humans being a couple of examples.
Democracy has to allow the introduction of ideas that are contrary to the p… Read More
2015-10-03 11:19
Historically, the purpose of gods was to explain observed phenomena that to our limited understanding of the world appeared arbitrary and capricious. Then someone came up with the idea of h… Read More
2015-03-29 21:34
I’m writing this from the perspective of a non-sufferer. Nor have I had to look after anyone suffering from mental illness.
So why am I writing about mental illness? Because my percept… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The loudest voices in the debate about climate change belong to the rich and powerful lobby groups representing the energy companies.
Why are they so against any legislation restricting the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Consumerism is like a giant parasite latched onto our creativity.
When we were hunter-gatherers, we would experience novelty and adventure by moving territory and encountering new plants and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Appreciating art is a process that is both intellectual and visceral. The more an artwork operates on the following levels, the better it is.
1. Do you like it?
This should be your immediate… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Leicester and York are arguing over who is going to have the privilege of keeping some bones of a dead human being. They have employed lawyers in fact to argue for both of them, which means… Read More
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