We do not wish our ancient freedom and the decent tolerant civilisation we have preserved in this island to hang upon a rotten thread.
– Winston Churchill, September 1935
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October 9th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else. October 7th, 2002 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. October 5th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The debate over guns is a clash of cultures, a confrontation of different kinds of character, a disagreement over social philosophy and even, though few notice this, over free will and determinism. The contending factions don’t need guns to detest each other. They would anyway. October 3rd, 2002 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 1st, 2002 | Comments are closed
September 29th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
They have an engine called the Press, whereby the people are deceived. September 28th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual September 27th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
September 24th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 (Photo: D. Amon) …but who can help me identify the arcane Techno-mage, Transterrestrialist, Anglosphericaloid and, er, Pundit, who make up this sinister cabal before whom the world trembles? September 23rd, 2002 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, September 23rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
September 22nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
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