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Out east – one year ago today
I looked at what I was doing a year ago today, and came across these photos, of a great little expedition I had out east: My wanderings began at West Silvertown DLR, from which there is a great view of...
View ArticleA Twitter dump
For several months now, as alluded to tangentially already today, I have a ever heightening heap of, in particular, tweets piling up in my computer, which I have in mind to say clever things about, and...
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Andrew Sharpe’s Ely Cathedral Supermoon
As mentioned in this earlier posting, I’ve found another photoer to follow. Sharpe: good name for a photoer. The Sharpe photo (to quote one of his tweet-commenters: “Wow”) that got me pressing Follow...
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WHAM!
While searching the photo-archives for something completely different, I came across THIS!: I photoed the above in the summer of 2016, in the Tate Modern gift shop. Art galleries fascinate me, even...
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An old photo of a Robert Burns statue
I didn’t know until now that London had a statue of Robbie Bunrs, but apparently so: How did I learn about this? I learned it from my photo-archives. I photoed this statue on August 29th 2008. The...
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Abney Park
Recently I was in the general vicinity of Lambeth, Stoke Newington, that sort of part of London, seeing things like a lion statue. But that lion was nothing to what came later. Which was this: This...
View ArticlePoetic perfection in a reopening pub
Rebecca Day tweets: I’ve spoken to regulars Chris and Jimmy. Jimmy hasn’t gone to bed after his night shift tarmacking the roads. He had a shower and came straight here. He described the taste of his...
View ArticleEmmanuel Todd on the earthly rewards of aberrant beliefs
I’ve been reading Emmanuel Todd’s book, Lineages of Modernity. For any sort of review of this book by me, you will have to wait. But meanwhile, I did enjoy this snippet, about why people believe the...
View ArticleRodney Stark defends God’s Battalions
Recently I quoted a chunk from Emmanuel Todd’s Lineages of Modernity, in the course of which chunk Todd praised the historian Rodney Stark. I looked up Stark on Amazon and encountered a familiar book...
View ArticleJames Lindsay talks to and with Joe Rogan
I’ve had my morning deranged by watching and listening to this video of … well, see above. Lots of wisdom in this. Lots. James Lindsay is a new name to me, and towards the end of this he talked about...
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The Broadgate Tower … etcetera
The Broadgate Tower, because I like it. This particular City of London Big Thing is in a slightly different style to the more celebrated Big Things just to its south, in that it is one of those towers...
View ArticleOn Ex-Muslims and on the lack of social media omnipotence
Over the course of the last few days, Facebook suppressed Ex-Muslim TV but has now allowed it back on air again. Which provides me with a perfect excuse to write some topical commentary on the subject...
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E-scooters in Oxford Street and buying a Dyson fan in the only place I could...
Today I went shopping in Oxford Street. I was photoing cranes and roof clutter and scaffolding and suchlike, when an e-scooter wizzed by, so I was able to photo that instead, and when I got home, I...
View Article“I love it when Dawkins admitted that!”
I recently watched this duet rant by David Wood and, when he can get a word in, Robert Spencer. David Wood, a new name to me, is a Christian, but not the sort of Christian who believes in turning the...
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A model of London Bridge that is hard to photo
One of the more frustrating of the photo-expeditions I have done in the last few years was one to the Church of St Magnus the Martyr. I was there, around a year ago. to photo a model of Old London...
View ArticleAnother remarkable Trump speech
Here. I don’t agree that Trump is defeating The Virus, as he claims. I think it is fizzling out of its own accord. I therefore think that he overdoes the criticism of China, on this particular score....
View ArticleA crazy sports day
I don’t usually set the video to record MOTD, or for that matter MOTD2, but I’ll have to this evening. First it was Leicester, unbeaten until today, who were today beaten 0-3 at home by West Ham, but...
View ArticleFrank J. Fleming on how to do fake news
Frank J. Fleming muses on his new job as a social media adviser to Amy Coney Barrett: This partisan divide is why it’s hard to trick all the people all the time with fake news. I dream of a day when...
View ArticleThe Babylon Bee joins Twitter and Facebook in seeking to suppress claims that...
Yes, my favourite insect has for many weeks been a bee, the Babylon Bee. But now, the Bee is telling me this: Since you did not click on that article, you were not horrified by all the alleged...
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Canaletto – and now
Came across this picture of St Paul’s by Canaletto, with boats, done in the 1740s: I tried to find a bigger version. I failed, but did encounter this, from the Daily Express of June 4th 2012: WITH its...
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