I found myself reflecting on this question after reading a recent article by Matt Goodwin. Whatever one's political position, the subject deserves serious consideration: how free are we in Britain to express unpopular, controversial or unfashionable opinions? Have a look at his Substack – well worth subscribing. Goodwin drew attention to the government's proposed National Centre for Information...
Last Monday we set off by coach for a four-night stay in Llandudno, North Wales, with a company called Just Go! Holidays. Our coach was due to pick us up in Bath at 9.10 in the morning and actually arrived only five minutes late, driven by a very affable and helpful Polish gentleman. To catch it, we had left home at about ten to seven, our bags making a considerable noise as we pulled them along...
I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed For A Mass Awakening Video reading by Tim Foley: I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed to our doom, and that if anything changes it will be because the insanity of our capitalist system causes...
Yesterday we had a thoroughly enjoyable day in Bristol, helped considerably by good weather and by one of those intuitive promptings which occasionally tells me that I should be somewhere. I have learned over the years not to dismiss these feelings too quickly. Françoise had some practical objectives. She wanted to buy a new pair of shoes and also look for materials for her painting. My own...
Are you familiar with ChatGPT? ChatGPT stands for: Chat — because it is designed to communicate conversationally. G — Generative: it generates new text and other content. P — Pre-trained: it was trained on large amounts of information before being made available for conversations. T — Transformer: the type of neural-network architecture on which the model is based. So GPT = Generative...
I have been questioning what part, if any, of news, never mind mainstream news, should play in my life. So much is lies or obfuscation. Can we learn to say what we believe without fear of consequences. I am republishing this article as a shining example of the psychologist and writer Jordon Peterson. I recommend his site from which this article is taken....
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