Monthly Archives: May 2021

There are a lot of things I don’t believe. I don’t believe that smoking causes lung cancer. I grew up in the 1950s in a world where everyone smoked. My father smoked. My grandfather smoked. My mother occasionally smoked. None … Continue reading →

I often wonder whether top-down state-sponsored prohibition like the current smoking ban can ever succeed in the long term. One simple fact is that after 14 years of the prohibition in the UK, I’m still smoking. I’m never going to … Continue reading →

Ignoring the news, which is always awful, I’ve been watching a video of a placid cycle ride along the Via Appia in Italy. The road is surprisingly narrow. It’s not much wider than an English country lane. Roman legionaries marching … Continue reading →

French Civil War Over Islamism? I was a bit shocked to read that French generals are warning of civil war if Islamism in France isn’t countered. But perhaps after the 2015 Bataclan massacre something like it was always looming. Unthinkable? … Continue reading →

Once again I’ve had great difficulty trying to post anything on WordPress. I don’t get offered the option to add a new post. It’s only by clicking on more or less everything I can that I eventually get offered this … Continue reading →

Smokers never seem to get angry about smoking bans. But maybe that’s because they’ve been under attack all their lives. They’re used to it. On Forest’s Zoom meeting recently Jacob Grier said it went back to the 1940s and 50s, … Continue reading →

I was listening to birdsong at 6 am this morning, and was struck by how much of it seemed to be made up of distinct sentences made up of distinct words or tweets. Are blackbirds saying things that we don’t … Continue reading →

I have in the past written about megalithic structures. The idea I had was that, with the surfaces of the ice sheets uninhabitable, humans may have lived in warm caverns beneath the ice, building megalithic structures to hold up the … Continue reading →

Murray Rothbard wrote the following article in August 1994… Quick: Which is America’s Most Persecuted Minority? No, you’re wrong. (And it’s not Big Business either: one of Ayn Rand’s more ludicrous pronouncements.) All right, consider this: Which group has been … Continue reading →