This is a Tweet where you have to show it all or it makes no sense: "Bill if you take this TV thing, you're finished. You're an actor, for God's sake! Theatre! Movies! I've seen that script too – it's kid's stuff, embarrassing! Not even a medical drama! I'm begging you, Bill – do not … Continue reading “Bill – do not do this!”
This from Tom Holland: Those who speak of the death of British democracy seem to me to have it exactly wrong. Everything that is happening is happening because we, as a country, are testing existential issues that many other countries have opted to suppress in a way so democratic as to be titanic. I reckon … Continue reading Tom Holland on the state of democracy in Britain now
I don’t trust Twitter enough to ever want to rely on it for anything, because it might suddenly turn against me and my politics. (I hate Islam, etc.) But I follow various people on Twitter, and by this means, I recently learned that Glasgow is about to have a new fleet of robot underground trains. … Continue reading Robot trains for Glasgow
Originally posted at Brian Micklethwait’s Old Blog – this was the final posting there And this blog stops now. Not before time. For many years it has been too slow, too clunky and just too all round ridiculous. More recently, and longer ago than I care to think about, (my management of) the comment system … Continue reading Brian Micklethwait’s New Blog starts now
In that chat that me and Patrick had yesterday, about Christianity and its influence, I mentioned, for some reason, how part of the reason the Shard is shaped like the Shard is that it is also shaped like the steeple of a typical sort of London church. The church in these photos, that I photoed … Continue reading Now you see it now you don’t – then you do again
Earlier today, Patrick Crozier and I recorded another of our recorded conversations (by and by it will appear here). Patrick laid out the agenda which was Christianity, and how, although he could never believe in it, nenevertheless regrets the diminution of its influence on our world. He mentioned the way the Western Roman Empire fell … Continue reading Quimper Cathedral photos from a year ago
Video here. Says Patrick Crozier: This is brilliant. Say I: not very fair. Plus: I question the editing. Was this what happened all the time? Or was this the one recorded highlight? Originally posted at Brian Micklethwait’s Old Blog
Patrick Crozier and I have just fixed our next podcast, which we will record early next week. Read about and listen to earlier ones here, and in due course this next one will go there too. And for this next one, we will talk about … Brexit. I knew you’d be excited. Many claim that … Continue reading Talking about Brexit
With thanks to Patrick Crozier‘s Twitter feed, this, posted by Steve Stewart-Williams. He got it from Denny Borsboom, who says (at his Facebook page), this: Different scientific models can have equivalent observational consequences. In statistics, this is known as statistical equivalence; in the philosophy of science, underdetermination of theory by data. This is often hard … Continue reading Some geometrical video
Last night, Spurs lost 0-1, at “home” (i.e. Wembley), to Man U. I had been half hoping that Spurs might lose, because this would make it less likely that Man U would want to replace their current manager, Solskjaer, with the man whom he outmanaged last night, Spurs manager Pochettino. Spurs really need Pochettino to … Continue reading Spurs win 0-1?