Bruce Charlton's Notions

My prediction for 2026 is that "AI" will continue to subvert self-identified Christians (as well as everybody else); in particular...

Because we live in a materialist and incoherent society; from the nihilistic despair of which we crave temporary alleviation - we are contin...

I often got confused during my very first reading of The Lord of the Rings, because I was mixing-up Sauron with Saruman.  So how was it that...

The Massacre of the Innocents , by Pieter Breughel the Elder; this is the subject matter of the Coventry Carol  Many people's favourite ...

Britain is plagued by Christmas Song anthologies that get replayed every year in places like supermarkets - most come from pop novelty recor...

Real bottom-up nationalism was a phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th century - it was, indeed, the first attempt by developing natio...

Anyone who has a (more-or-less) coherent religious basis; can observe that the high level global ruling class is pursuing some kind of cover...

He bore him up, he bore him down,  He bore him into an orchard brown.  (Chorus)  Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!  The falcon has borne my make...

We live in what must surely be the most calculatedly untruthful society and civilization in world history - where dishonesty is expected and...

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...