25 August 2011
“I could do you a lot of harm”
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extract from Letters from Exile In some sort of television drama, a wealthy man was represented as saying: ‘I write the rules, I deal out th...
12 August 2011
Hopping mad
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copy of a letter You said I was ‘hopping mad’ about the item in the paper about rubbishy ‘research’ on out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) b...
07 August 2011
Standards have declined ... a lot
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Standards have declined a lot and in particular there is much less scope for autonomy. I thought of the best sort of university career as ab...
01 August 2011
If you get it, you should come
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Copy of correspondence on Facebook between a reader of one of my books and myself. I continue to get enthusiastic comments from individuals...
28 July 2011
Planning for the future
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There have been many articles recently about the bad treatment of people of pensionable age who get into care homes. Often the appalling tre...
22 July 2011
Out-of-the-body experiences
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Some recent articles about out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) in the Daily Mail demonstrate the usual confusions about the topic. Research ...
19 July 2011
The Tavistock Clinic
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copy of a letter It is certainly not the case (as people have often assumed) that we did not want people to have outside careers. Charles Mc...
18 July 2011
Evolution, subspecies and the Welfare Junkies
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If a radical change is introduced in the structure of a situation, such as was introduced in 1945 with the onset of the Welfare State, there...
15 July 2011
Gospel of Thomas, saying 21
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Mary said to Jesus: Whom are thy disciples like? He said: They are like little children who have installed themselves in a field which is no...
14 July 2011
The only real solution
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The only real solution to the disastrous downfall of Western civilisation, at least so far as this country is concerned, is to abolish the W...
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