Today’s news that Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, has received a posthumous pardon, is of great interest. At first glance it looks like a gross miscarriage of justice has been reversed. However its not as simple as that. Basically the pardon means the sentencing for the murder of her…
When it comes to the idiocy of this world, people can be either right or wrong about many things, and others in between somewhere. Of course one particular aspect continues to stand out and that is whether things are actually right or wrong. It is both a case of subjectivity and of following an ideology…
There has been a need to write about men quite urgently especially in the case of a number of recent cases – not forgetting certain conflicts too. The sheer scale and extent of such happenings do not merely indicate there is a level of what can be considered a meagre intellect. Its far more complex…
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The preceding quote was penned by Leo Tolstoy and gained prominence in Anna Karenina (1877). In some quarters this is related to what’s known as the Anna Karenina principle. That denotes a means of determining whether a marriage is even going…
I’m getting married in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the stopper, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get me to the church on time. Even better is how the above ought to go…. I’m getting born in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the umbilical, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get…
Neil de Grasse Tyson runs a regular series called Star Talk along with occasional and special guests. His regular co host is Chuck Nice and Star Talk is a great programme often involving scientific fact, scientific debate and scientific curiosity. Almost every episode has a good sprinkling of humour, necessary because its a way of…
When one considers the current war – instigated by Trump and Netanyahu – there can be no doubt its driven by leaders with a huge idiotic sense of things. Their actions are akin to using a nuclear bomb to kill a canary. Steinbeck was right – All war is a symptom of man’s failure as…
Gen Z is said to be less intelligent. Does that mean humanity is getting thicker? Or is it the woke mind that suffers? A trawl through a number of posts from X reveal an interesting mix of thoughts and perceptions – clouding what is really happening when stats show a discernible drop in the comprehension…
In our modern world, intelligent individuals regularly make baffling decisions. These could be any number of professionals whose contradictions raise concerns. Why such poor decisions? Immanuel Kant identified this trait centuries ago, calling it ‘immaturity’ – the refusal to use one’s own understandings without guidance from another. Kant says society educates and meshes people together in…
While many see war as a terrible and often irrational act (no doubt its a stupid thing too), war is frequently treated by governments as some kind of ‘necessary evil’ in defending sovereignty or response to extreme aggression. The prevailing modern view, especially in the context of advanced, destructive weaponry, is that war is an…