Bruce Charlton's Notions

Many of us are, or have been, nostaligic and indeed envious of the remnant tribalisms of this modern world; because we European-descended pe...

I regard the Winter Solstice as a phase of the year lasting about a week, rather than today specifically. Because day length barely changes ...

FC Letters, JRRT For those of you who have only begun reading this blog within the last dozen years - here is a reprise of my particular fav...

I admit candidly that my title is more than a little click-baitish!  However; if Christianity is considered as a religion , then it has fail...

Illegal signage ! I recently noticed the weird tendency for the local government to replace the ancient and universally understood term ...

There is a sense in which anybody that takes one step away-from obedience to an "authority", will continue to diverge - will cont...

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance...

As I have often said; I believe that since late 2020 "They" are fractured into two main factions of evil:  1. The totalitarians - ...

The Christmas season, leading up to the day itself; can be a wonder-full experience - it can (and usually does) induce a state of wonder - m...

There must be a generation or two of people who have never heard a Christmas carol or song, sing straight . Sung, that is, at the proper tem...

There are people, online especially but also IRL, whose response to the evil nature of the ruling classes is avoidance .  It's the purit...

Modern people are no longer (since their young childhoods) able to live spontaneously and naturally (and mostly unconsciously) in the realms...

[Aslan said] "Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands—dead. The term is over: the holidays...

I have often written here that the purpose of this mortal life must account for the extended nature of life - the fact that our life may con...

The poet Tony Harrison , who lived near me in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently died (1937-2025); and then we also met some of his relations...

Mainstream, normal, modern Western people are atheist materialists, who believe ( assume ) that there is neither purpose nor meaning in the ...

It has been noticed (even including by me!) that a hell of torment seems to have arisen after Jesus offered the possibility of Heaven.  Appa...

I am still reading Geoffrey Ashe's The Virgin - his dense, fascinating, and very stimulating book about the historical development and ...

It was in 2007 that I began to take an academic interest in the gross and worsening sub-fertility of native people in the entire developed w...

A very nice version of the Sussex Carol follows an excellent syncopated instrumental version of Christmas Day in the Morning; from a folk b...

In parts of Europe such as Germany and France; today is "celebrated" as St Nicholas Day in which children who do not conform to ad...