Yes I know that the majority of you don’t give a stuff about royalty anyway but quite a few nations prefer their Head of State to wear a…
Category: Philosophy
The Final Solution
Researchers have tried to find cogent reasons for Hitler’s pathological hatred of the Jews. Nothing in his childhood in Austria happened which might have sown the…
English section: Gobbledegook & Officialese
An onomatopoeic word is one that derives its meaning from the sound it makes. The accepted dictionary word ‘gobbledegook’ decidedly comes from the sound made by most poultry…
The US Supreme Court and homosexual marriage
Just now the US Supreme Court is busy debating the rights and wrongs of legalizing in federal terms the joining together in sacred or civil marriage of…
Popular Myths and the Conspiracy Theory: ‘the stab in the back’ 1918
Learnéd, and sometime not so learnéd people have started myths right down through the centuries almost since the human race was ‘uncivilized’. King Alfred ‘burning the cakes’,…
Sturdy Beggars
In the so-called ‘developed’ societies since the end of the Second World War many children are brought up by unthinking parents to believe that work is something…
SPAIN today: a prediction and some questions
Morning, noon and night it is predicted by the Spanish news programmes that Mariano Rajoy may resign and take his Popular Party with him. The reason, we are…
SPAIN: from black comedy to farce
Not even the Monty Python team could have invented the present situation in the democracy with a monarchy, Parliament, and civilized population called Spain. The Marx Brothers…
Post-War poverty in Socialist Britain (1945 – 51)
It was a surrealist time to be British. Six years of total war had left the people with their men and womenfolk dead, wounded and crippled as…
The Fuggers
Now before the bloodhounds of Google get hot about the collar and assume I am using a form of Anglo-Saxon four-letter-word in the plural, give me time to…