When podcasting clashes with the cricket
Monday before last, on July 20th, Patrick Crozier and I were fixed to do another of our recorded conversations, about France’s military activities and ordeals during the two world wars, and especially...
View ArticleThoughts provoked by a Paul Graham piece about privilege
Paul Graham: There has been a lot of talk about privilege lately. Although the concept is overused, there is something to it, and in particular to the idea that privilege makes you blind — that you...
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Still Thames water at the beginning of Lockdown
I think that, on balance, this was the best photo I got yesterday: But I didn’t photo it yesterday. I couldn’t have. This was taken on April 5th, by Alastair. He showed it to me on his phone, and I...
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about French military disappointments (and so does...
These disappointments happened in 1870, 1914, 1917, 1940, 1944(?) and 1954. We don’t talk about them in chronological order, because we started with 1914, which was the failed French Ardennes...
View ArticleRobot car thoughts
I get emails from Google telling me what the internet has been saying about robot cars, and the most recent such email concerned a Forbes piece, entitled Full Self-Driving Cars Are Still A Long Way Off...
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My homework for tomorrow
Tomorrow, Patrick Crozier and I will, all being well, recording a conversation about the Industrial Revolution, aka The Kink. Too busy re-remembering what they said to be able to write about that now.
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A bike and a back ache
Today I photoed this guy and his bike, with his permission: But not his face, although he didn’t seem to mind about that. I went to the Pedal Me website, but am still none the wiser about the exact...
View ArticleTrump did this good thing, but …
Ronald Forbes, for The Conservative Woman: WHY is it that almost every conservative defence of Donald Trump begins by disowning him personally like a distasteful object held at arm’s length? Sure, they...
View ArticleJoe Rogan talks with Daryl Davis about how Davis converted lots of white racists
Just finished watching/listening to this Joe Rogan talk with Daryl Davis, about how Davis has been converting white racists into upstanding American citizens. Davis says he doesn’t himself convert...
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Cat participates in DarkHorse podcast
I listened earlier in the week to this DarkHorse Podcast with Douglas Murray and Bret Weinstein, in which Murray describes what is going on in Portland, Oregon. And it’s not good. Worth a listen, if...
View ArticleI have lung cancer
This afternoon I sent out an email message to about fifty or more of my nearest and dearest, saying that I now have lung cancer. Since among my nearest and dearest are those who read this little blog...
View ArticlePatrick and I finally did our Industrial Revolution podcast
In this posting here just over a week ago, I showed you all a pile of books, and said that if all went well I’d be recording a conversation with Patrick Crozier in which I’d speak about these books...
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about death – and lots of other things
The latest Patrick Crozier Brian Micklethwait “podcast” is up, although I prefer “recorded conversation”. Our subject was … well, basically some thoughts that were provoked by my recent lung cancer...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about Enoch Powell
The latest Patrick Crozier/Brian Micklethwait recorded conversation is now up and listenable-to. We talk about Enoch Powell, of whom Patrick writes: Enoch Powell was a prominent politician in the 1960s...
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James Tooley talks about Really Good Schools
I’ve just listened to the whole of this podcast (which I encountered here), in which Paul E. Peterson talks (for a little over forty minutes) with one of my most favourite public intellectuals on the...
View ArticlePatrick posted our conversation about Steve Stewart-Williams and evolution (...
I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
View ArticleToday Patrick and I had another conversation about World War One
We had already decided that our chat today would be about what kicked off World War One. However, as part of my homework for this, I listened again to this earlier conversation we recorded about World...
View ArticleThe latest conversation with Patrick Crozier is now up
I only started deciding what to put here today quite late on. What should I say here today? Then, to rescue me, incoming from Patrick Crozier, telling me that our latest recorded conversation is now...
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Adding Wembley to the big model of London
i’ve always liked that big model of London at the Building Centre in Store Street. Well, it’s not there any more. But, relax. It’s moved, to King’s Cross. And, there’s now more of it than there used to...
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