Personally I thought that the recorded chat that Patrick Crozier and I did about World War 1 was better, because Patrick is an expert on that event and its times, its causes and its consequences. Here, for whatever it may be worth, is the rather more rambling and disjointed conversation that we had more recently … Continue reading Me and Patrick talk television
A few weeks ago, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the First World War. Patrick’s short intro, and the recording, are here. (It would appear that Croziervision is now back in business.) The “If only” of my title is because we talk about the question of “what if” WW1 had never started. What … Continue reading Me and Patrick Crozier talking about WW1: If only?
i’ve always liked that big model of London at the Building Centre in Store Street. Well, it’s not there any more. But, relax. It’s moved, to King’s Cross. And, there’s now more of it than there used to be: And that’s the new bit, off to the north west of London. To me, this is … Continue reading Adding Wembley to the big model of London
Following my recent medical disappointments, I have been pondering, as you do in such circumstances, the big questions. Like: What Do I Really Believe? And it turns out that one of the biggest things I believe in is evolution, as the best explanation for why we humans are the sort of creatures we are, altruistic … Continue reading National Geographic on the evidence for evolution
In 2017, I photoed the shadow of an Oxford Street beaver, and in 2015 (scroll down a bit) I photoed one of the actual beavers, from a great distance. Well, yesterday, I photoed all four actual beavers: I was in Oxford Street, shopping and then taking a walk from Carphone Warehouse Tottenham Court Road to … Continue reading The beavers of Oxford Street
Ouch: Surrey overnight looked like they could maybe make a fight of it, but by lunch they’d been totally blown away. Following sport has not been so good lately, for me. Various England cricket teams, after a good start, getting beaten in India in all formats. England in the Six Nations. Spurs being Spurs. And … Continue reading Surrey pasted
For the last few weeks, a strange glitch has been afflicting this blog, involving spacing. If I stick up just the one photo, stretching all the way across the width of the blog’s column of text, all is well. But if I stick up a gallery of photos, which is something I very much like … Continue reading A gallery of Michael Jennings photos
During a recent conversation that Patrick Crozier and I recorded (although as always Patrick did all the button-pushing and editing), about how the Industrial Revolution came about, Patrick asked a question that I didn’t answer at the time but which I think I can now answer, at least in broad brush strokes. My thesis was … Continue reading On how the English revolutionary ideology of improvement took its time
One of the things Patrick Crozier and I talked about in our latest Recorded Conversation is how the Royal Marsden Hospital is more mixed economy than pure NHS. It supplies services to the NHS, but is its own boss. And surely the reason for this is that it possesses a vast flood of charitable money, … Continue reading The Royal Marsden and its money
I’ve been reflecting on the career and achievements of Chris Tame: Those being three more photos of Chris that I recently exhumed from my “filing system”. Below is a list of the pieces of writing by him that were published (in some cases republished) by the Libertarian Alliance. Political Notes 27 The Bankruptcy of the … Continue reading A list of Libertarian Alliance publications by Chris Tame