A Thousand Months
‘An average human lifespan is less than a thousand months long’ is a favourite trope of mine in introducing the topic of ethics.
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Yachts and Life-Rafts
There is a theory abroad that says it’s good to have billionaires in one’s country.
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Perfume; or, A Bad Smell
Oxford Reference defines ‘corruption’ as ‘the abuse of entrusted power for private gain’.
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Write! The pen is mightier.
Moved by the Substack post by Ben Meiselas on Meidastouch Network about the devastatingly chilling effect on Latino communities and neighbourhoods of…
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June 2025

Time to Write a Letter
It is surely time for citizens of the United States to write letters – millions of them – to Republicans in Congress.
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Seethe df. churn, foam, agitate as if boiling.
If proof were needed that humankind is still at an infantile stage, quarrelling and venting animosities by throwing stones – or bombs – out of the toxic…
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Constitutionality
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The Mouth and ‘Too Much of a Mouthful’?
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A Ripping Yarn
In a piece on US public reaction to the first Covid lockdown, written in 2020, New York Times columnist David Brooks coined an apt metaphor to describe…
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Two More Lessons in Predictability from America
The Trump-Musk quarrel and HR1 (the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’): do either of them surprise anyone?Thanks for reading!
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Vendetta and Mayhem
One of the major motives of Trump’s activities is the desire for revenge – and not in the cold intellectual manipulative way of a Iago but in the petty…
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May 2025

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