As an attempt to show just how much I value comments – apart from publishing them and, where appropriate, responding to them – I decided that to answer a request for an anarchist reading list with a full blown posting rather than a short list of books in the style of list you might (well, [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Recommended Reading – a response to a request
Posted in faith, outlook, philosophy, politics on Friday, 27 June, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Child within Fraser
Posted in Church of England, Provoked by Transmitter, faith, outlook, relationships, religion on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
speaks loudly. I had, for a moment compared Giles Fraser to Charles Dawkins to think, perhaps Fraser was more childish and petulant than Dawkins, but no – he’s really not that bad. Which is a ways to go though so no room for complacency…
Once again his voice broke through the radio but not a reasonable [...]
Raggedly missing the point…
Posted in Provoked by Pulp, outlook, philosophy, politics, relationships on Sunday, 22 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The third and last part of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists of Radio 4’s Classic Serial has ended and with it so I find the ending of the book – I made it about two thirds of the way through it and faltered to a halt, although I will try to pick it up and finish [...]
“A few weeks ago,
Posted in Church of England, Provoked by Transmitter, dogma, faith, media, outlook, philosophy, politics, relationships, religion on Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
two Anglican clergymwen celebrated their civil partnership at a service in a famous London church.”
Thus started Giles Fraser this morning on his mis-placed slot for Thought for the Day. Well, just as a messy barometer about how sharp his mind is – today is the 18th of June and the service was on the 31st [...]
With perhaps two years before I bite the bullet of CRB check
Posted in outlook, philosophy, politics, relationships on Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I find that I must offload all the contempt I have for this fascist piece of law.
The Daily Terrograph [what with it's full coverage of a temporarily infamous Jordanian] has a small article on the whole problem of volunteers not, well, volunteering…
Apparently 48,000 girls cannot join a patrol because they are so short of leaders. [...]
Liberals, The Church of England and The Media
Posted in Church of England, dogma, faith, media, outlook, relationships, religion on Monday, 16 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you want to do something but don’t like the idea of not being able to do it – just getting on and doing it is the best way forward. Shoot the gun, make them ask questions afterwards and try to smile to the camera as much as possible. If indeed the media come to [...]
Raggedly Brilliant
Posted in Provoked by Transmitter, history, outlook, philosophy, politics, relationships on Monday, 16 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the moment the old Radio 4 is running The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists as it’s classic serial.
This is just a note to recommend it (or even the book itself) and to forewarn you, dear reader, that I’ll be coming back to this masterpiece later – for there is much to dwell therein.
For the moment however [...]
Rule 303 – The State is Your Father, The State is Your Mother
Posted in Rule 303, Terror, outlook, politics, relationships on Friday, 13 June, 2008 | 8 Comments »
or Blame Somebody Else
Whilst I don’t think anybody should plot to blow folk up, actually blow folk up or even help folk to blow other folk up there’s been an interesting spin on the ruling against Yeshiemebet Girma, the wife of Hussain Osman one of the 21/7 bombers and plotters and that is it’s her [...]
As I was walking the new and four-legged
Posted in Britain Today, Canine Matters, Terror, history, media, outlook on Friday, 13 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
addition to the family I was musing that when I was a youngster – back in the 70s the high end of dog walking/training etiquette was that if the dog being walked needed to ‘go’ -yes this is my early warning we are going to use ‘dirty’ words… then the dog would be trained to [...]
“It was Sarah who had destroyed his faith
Posted in Provoked by Pulp, dogma, faith, outlook, relationships, religion on Thursday, 12 June, 2008 | 4 Comments »
for him, just as she destroyed almost everything else in his life: ’she begs us to love her…’ he wrote to Charlotte Shaw, ‘and points us to Christ, in whom, she says, is the only happiness and truth. Not that she finds happiness herself… and Christ is not a symbol but a personality, spoiled by [...]
