Month: September 2024
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Individuals with Cervixes
Philisophers suggest that science often invokes ceteris paribus clauses; all other things being equal, light travels in straight lines, but not near massive objects – one of the remarkable predictions of the general theory of relativity. However, ceteris paribus clauses have somewhat more incendiary impact in everyday life. Four years ago, Canterbury and Whitstable MP…
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Kind of Blue
Definitely one of my Desert Island Discs. And an apt description of the feeling that creeps over one as late September approaches early Autumn; cooler nights make sleeping sounder, but breezy days and turning leaves presage the acceleration towards the year’s end. With Neil Peart I’m aware that “summer’s going fast, nights growing colder, children…
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The Fog of War
I gather that Hillary Cass has gone to ground, exhausted by the venom unleashed on her following the publication of her review of care for gender questioning young people. Cass has transitioned from a respected paediatrician to a target in the Culture War – an advocate for trepanning, according to Kathleen Stock, and a fascist…
Mrs Benn 