Writing 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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Being offensive is not an offence and a public falsehood about the content of...
This: I, and many others, found this sign very offensive. Which means that it was “being offensive” and it broke its own rule. Some of those many others complained and Merseyside Police retreated:...
View ArticleA House of Lords speech defending women and defending the English language
This bit of video, lasting just under ten minutes, which I recently came upon here, is surely likely to get a lot more attention than it’s got so far: I like it because it is suffused with the very...
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E-scooters big and small – safe and unsafe
I get emails whenever e-scooters are mentioned on the internet, but the problem with these emails is that they often refer to very different sorts of vehicles. E-scooter can mean this …: … which is a...
View ArticleHow the artificial meat story will play out
Andrew Lilico tweets: People seem to imagine there’ll be a “Yuck!” factor barrier to lab-grown meat. But a) in a sausage or burger are you even going to notice? And b) if you think “Yuck!” about...
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I miss proper light bulbs
One from the I Just Like It directory: March 2019. A sure sign of a true Big Thing is that you recognise it even when it’s out of focus. Well, even if you don’t, I do. Plus, is that a photoer on the...
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Some surprises at the Royal Marsden today
Now that the weather is good and Lockdown seems to be easing, I am doing a lot more getting out, but am in a physical state where properly thoughtful blogging is hard to do on a day when I will be...
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London Fields creatures
And I don’t mean creatures to be seen in the fields of London. I mean creatures to be seen in a particular place in London called London Fields. Until recently, I knew London Fields only as the title...
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Perry de Havilland on those Covid demonstrations
Well, I managed to do a posting that I had merely hoped to do for Samizdata, about the Covid demo in London the weekend before last, linking back here to all the photos of it that I stuck up here....
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E-scooters for hire outside South Ken Tube
How about this, some photos photoed by me, yesterday! E-scooters, of the only sort that are legal in London, outside (see above) South Kensington tube. When and where can I ride an e-scooter legally?...
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