Commonwealth or Common Woe?
I’m not sure whether or not the Commonwealth conference has quite finished yet. I thought it had, but then caught something on the radio the other day about a related function or reception, but as my interest in the institution is limited I didn’t really pay attention. Perhaps I should have, because this seemingly moribund organisation is coming back to bite us. It is not by coincidence that the conference was overshadowed by the Windrush…
National Life – From the Standpoint of Science
This is a slightly abridged transcript of a lecture delivered in Newcastle on 19th November, 1900, to the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society by Karl Pearson, F.R.S., Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College, London. Karl Pearson was a polymath, born in Islington in 1857, he studied Mathematics at Cambridge University, later Physics at the University of Heidelberg, and at various other seats of learning; he studied metaphysics, physiology, Roman Law, 16th Century German Literature, English Law and Socialism and became…
United States of Europe or a Europe of Nations?
By Markus Willinger: The Ukraine crisis has not only shown that the old conflict between America and Russia still exists. It has also made it clear that Europe is still the locus of this conflict, but without any independent power of its own to affect the outcome. The Russians and the Americans argue about redrawing borders within Europe, and they don’t care what we Europeans think about it. They don’t care because they don’t need…
D-Day!
By Max Musson: As events to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day take place over the next few days, our news media will be full of personal stories retelling tales of the heroism of those who took part in the Normandy landings, unfortunately without making any connection between the outcome of World War Two and the dire situation we find ourselves in as a nation today. Undoubtedly those who took part in the Normandy…
Film Review – 300: Rise of an Empire
Brace yourself because THIS IS SPARTA! Again. The first 300 movie ranks among my favourite films of all time, less due to its cartoonish stylised gore offering as its wonderfully unapologetic masculine heroism. When I walked into the cinema this week to watch this follow-up I really didn’t know what to expect as I’d read nothing at all about it before hand. My assumption was that it would be a sequel but the story began…