Loose Ends

 It never fails. One minute you're taking part in a street protest about some issue or another, because you are a soul of purity, truth and good virtue. And a snap of the fingers later its affecting something you like. A tale as old as time One of my favourite historians James Holland, who is a good and kind man, who spoke out about the lack of compassion for migrants desperately fleeing war torn France.  Just as long as it didn't affect something he liked No, i never meant right here. This is a thing I like Indeed, where is the compassion. It's only an old airfield after all (I'm kidding, I'm a huge WWII buff) The things is with migrants. They don't pitch up on our shores with their own houses on their backs a full bill of good health and 5 miles of road. Of course, there is very little mention of what the villages surrounding Scampton would have to suffer (there are more than half a dozen villages close to Scampton, some with a population of under 200) No, the...

In my spare time, I love reading through academic articles. There was a time when i would hear that someone was an academic and think to myself  "wow! this must be a smart person" which, on the face of it, is rather absurd. Going to a university is no guarantee that it will make a dumb person smart. in fact, it very often will make them even dumber. The other day i came across this article about the British war on woke. This is an insane article Written mostly by Huw C Davies. He's a researcher at Oxford. But don't let that fool you into thinking he must be really smart then. Because he isn't. In the abstract, he describes the British war on woke as an intensive, ideological campaign. Odd framing, because its not a campaign by any stretch of the imagination. The founding principle of the University was an exchange of ideas, the hope would be that the better ideas come out on top. it seems Huw is not keen on accepting ideas outside his bubble of cultural Marxism. I...