Bruce Charlton's Notions

Sun rising due east:  Note * I have always supposed that on the day of the spring equinox (i.e. yesterday) the name and night both became 12...

" Deus ex machina " is a term used to describe the plot device by which intervention from outside the action appears just before s...

The main source of mass media disinformation is in the frame. No matter whether any specific claim is factual or a lie, we can be sure that...

Monarchy was a TV series by historian David Starkey from twenty years ago , which I am re-watching for about the third time.  The series ru...

When I recently wrote about the severe and increasing subfertility of the populations of all developed societies in the world; I had not rea...

As a Northumbrian (by inheritance, conception, and residence - if not birth!) who yet has a better claim to pretend to be Irish than most of...

Over the past eight years; my reading-of and brooding-on the Fourth Gospel (called "John") has had many and profound effects on m...

An interesting and useful resource has appeared on the excellent Fourble website: a collection of 45  podcasts featuring or written by Coli...

I thought regular readers might be interested to see the official document by which I became Baron of Jesmond , some three decades ago.  Thi...

John Pritchard, Tragedian: 1830-1868  Seems to have been a rather handsome chap, and rather too obviously proud of it - given that this is t...

The problems of this mortal life are (essentially) evil and entropy . Those who are honest and give the matter thought, acknowledge that the...

2020 was the year when there was a completely successful coup in which global-totalitarianism took-over all the nations of the world; conclu...

The vast and endless stream of drivel on the subject of the supernatural superpowers of "AI" continues - and it will continue unti...

All over the media (mass and "alternative") are explanations of how the such-and-such Big Nation has made a Big Bistake, because b...

Last week my wife and I were the first to celebrate a new festival that we originated: " Aunt Grace Day "... JRR Tolkien's Aun...

Assuming that we acknowledge it as a real possibility, and have not pre-decided that it cannot be true; we can know that our soul is is not...

The spiritual is primary, and includes the material.  Therefore every material problem necessarily has a spiritual dimension.  But mainstrea...

Not so much preferring "the lesser of evils" - because how could we really know which was lesser? More like recognizing that one s...

I often have unpleasant dreams just before waking; and if I try to go back to sleep after one such, I simply return to the dream.  At one le...

The crew of a Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber - some Sergeant's stripes evident The extremely high casualties in RAF Bomber Command, t...

People are apparently unable to grasp the very simple fact that the "subfertility*" of all the populations of all the developed na...