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Westminster Abbey – modified and unmodified
Again with the photos from last Wednesday, this time photoed soon after I had photoed The Broadway, and its coffins. Proceed down Victoria Street from there, and you go past this place. If you are me,...
View ArticleWhy Democrat electoral cheating is no longer okay
To start with, a pre-emptive grovel. I am not a fully fit person just now. I can just about manage photoing photos and posting photos. I can even manage stating my opinions. What I shrink from doing,...
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Salisbury Cathedral behind sheep
Another notable James Cook photo of his local and favourite cathedral: It’s nice how the sheep are mostly looking, vaguely curious but in no way troubled, at the camera. And note how, in the summer,...
View Article“We believe passionately …”
Mick Hartley comments on the statement by Julie Birchill’s ex-publishers about why they cancelled her book: And you can almost guarantee that if someone states how they “believe passionately in freedom...
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John Wesley statue outside St Paul’s
I do love statue-photoing but I admit that it has been very hit-and-miss. This, however, by my modest standards, I rate as a hit: That’s John Wesley. He was, or so it says on the base of the statue,...
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Hitchens talks to Paxman
I fear that I may now be an I-may-be-about-to-die bore. In the sense that I can think of nothing which I am now doing or saying or even thinking which is not happening under the shadow of my recent...
View ArticleDan Hannan in Australia
Two years ago, which explains the non-up-to-date political references to such things as Brexit, Dan Hannan did a talk in Australia. I found my way to this talk via the Hannan website, and watching this...
View ArticleWriting about morality and consequences in a way that hasn’t dated
The latest addition to the Brian Micklethwait Archive is a piece by me called The Morality of Consequentialism and the Consequences of Morality, which was first published over two decades ago. I had...
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Why my next camera may still be a camera rather than a mobile phone
In a recent posting here, I speculated that my next “camera” might also be my next mobile. Setting aside the question of whether I live long enough to be making any such decision, I think I probably...
View ArticleWhat I now feel able to say about Prince Philip
Nothing at all remarkable, just so you now know. Don’t read this posting for dazzling insights. It’s just that the last couple of days and the next few days are an example of a common thing, which is...
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Christ statue under construction in Brazil
What with my scaffolding fetish, I’m pretty sure I’m going to prefer photos like this one …: … to the finished statue. Photos of this monster Christ are now all over Twitter. BBC report here.
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A gallery of Michael Jennings photos
For the last few weeks, a strange glitch has been afflicting this blog, involving spacing. If I stick up just the one photo, stretching all the way across the width of the blog’s column of text, all is...
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Pfaith
Seen recently at a Facebook Friend’s page: While searching for more about this, I came upon this recent story: A single pill home cure for Covid could be available by the end of the year, according to...
View ArticleDiabolical Davies
I’ve just been catching up with my Facebook lurking, and therefore have only just come across this: I started listening and didn’t stop until it did. And I learned a lot. I really like how Davies...
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BMNB quote of the day: If you feel something is missing …
Here we go: It’s been a quiet day here at BMNB, which is not surprising given how wonderful the weather has been. Just the right amount of warm. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect. Who, on a day like...
View ArticleAnton Howes on how printing got started
Anton Howes has been asking himself Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? In the course of sketching an answer, he says interesting things about how printing did get started in Europe: When we think of...
View ArticleNational Geographic on the evidence for evolution
Following my recent medical disappointments, I have been pondering, as you do in such circumstances, the big questions. Like: What Do I Really Believe? And it turns out that one of the biggest things I...
View Article“This video makes me feel like CRT is a cult …”
CRT, as referred to in this posting, and in this tweet, stands for Critical Race Theory. I say that because I very much like the idea that at least some of my readers here have no notion of what “CRT”...
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Neptune appears on the south coast
Seen by me on Twitter: I think it said that this was claimed to have been photoed this morning. Unfortunately I lost the tweet where I saw this and could not find it again, so do not know the...
View ArticleBernstein’s posthumous victory
Last Saturday morning they chose the best recorded version of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. In the course of this, the guest chooser, Edward Seckerson, read out this excerpt from a poem that...
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