Vintage stuff, with a little twist or two! — Warning! Spoilers ahead! It is very fair to say that the Chibnall era of Doctor Who was a dead loss. He had the first female Doctor, portrayed by one of the best actors around, then he buried her in a heap of one-dimensional companions and tedious, clunkingly didactic scripts. Having…

Another take on the Middle East conflict — The seventy-year carbuncle of the Middle East has flared up again, spilling blood and pus all over the place. It’s not nice, it’s not pretty, people are getting hurt, going hungry, losing their homes and dying. Both sides are behaving badly, as usual. Committing all the oldest sins, in all…

Or what really went on… — In the beginning, God project-managed the creation of the heaven and the earth. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said “I’m getting bloody soaked here…

Must society always be divided? — Transhumanism can be broadly defined as a philosophical and intellectual movement dedicated to the idea that human evolution can be improved or speeded up by the application of advanced technology. Some would have us believe that this is human genius overcoming the clumsy, slow process of ‘natural’ evolution. …

Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me! — I have written of the mouse Dylan beat to death with my briefcase: (https://medium.com/@argonaut57/the-cat-who-used-a-blunt-instrument-5e6bed465cc4) I have recounted the tale of Cupcake the Demon Hamster: (https://medium.com/@argonaut57/the-cat-who-used-a-blunt-instrument-5e6bed465cc4) But it seems that the member of the order Rodentia are not done with me yet!

Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Romulan? — *WARNING: Some non-PC language, those where the days!* Captains’ Log, star date, star date…Wilson, what’s the stardate? “37771.4, Sir.” Star date 37771.4. The “Impeccable” has been seconded to Section 31 to perform a survey of the Romulan Neutral Zone, under the supervision of Commander Flick. Captain Mainwaring sat bolt upright…

Nothing whatever to do with who you are… — Tony Atkinson Born July 1958 in Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. Age 65 years. White English. British Citizen. Male cisgender heteroromantic asexual. BA (Hons) Communication Studies (2/1). Five O-levels, two A-levels, one S-level, one GCSE, City & Guilds 730 Adult Education Parts 1 & 2 (Merit). Veteran. Sufferer from…

But it will be a living death for Lucy Letby — Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old neonatal nurse from Hereford, has today been sentenced to a ‘whole life’ tariff in prison. A life sentence with no possibility of parole. While working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Letby attacked some 13 newborn babies, seven of whom died as…

Just privileges, and the need to fight to keep them. — Thomas Paine wrote at great length about the Rights of Man in 1791. He was not the first. A short list of ‘inalienable rights’ is a key element of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. The Magan Carta of 1215 established certain ‘rights’ of freeborn Englishmen. The 1689 Bill of Rights…