28 March 2013
Dame Janet Vaughan, the ‘old dragon’ of Somerville
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There follows an extract from a review in the Daily Mail by Quentin Letts of the book The Real Iron Lady: Working With Mrs Thatcher by Gil...
22 March 2013
Suing your headmaster
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It is a feature of modern society that it is impossible to express a need. If society has ruined your education and thrown you out without a...
03 March 2013
New pensions arrangements: ‘pro-family’, anti-intellectual
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The population of existing pensioners is one which has an average IQ above that of the population as a whole, and therefore, as the modern i...
13 February 2013
Causes of absenteeism in a bootlace factory
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text of a letter You said that you found our questionnaire on out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) ‘inspirational’. Please do not imagine th...
05 February 2013
Letter about my Professorship applications
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text of a letter Dear ... I attach herewith a copy of a letter which I have been sending to members of electoral committees when I apply...
30 January 2013
Pretending that nothing is wrong
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text of a letter I am sorry that I have not yet been able to meet you again. I could have put you in the picture about all the interaction...
12 January 2013
Sedition
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Things are often defined somewhat differently in modern English dictionaries, by comparison with dictionaries published earlier. “Sedition...
03 December 2012
Open letter to the family of the late General Sir Richard McCreery
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We have posted below advertisements for some of the properties near here which supporters might buy or rent to help us expand our activitie...
29 November 2012
Supporting us by buying or renting houses
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Lenin is said to have declared that the way to crush the bourgeoisie was to grind them between the millstones of inflation and taxation. T...
26 November 2012
Professor Colin Blakemore and 'near-death' experiences
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‘Near-death experiences’, which have become a staple of popular journalism, were never heard of (or at least I had never heard of them) unti...
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