The Cynical Tendency

A document unearthed recently by archaeologists from a building site near Kings Cross, evidently a place of ritual, has been translat...

Given the chaos of the present time and the difficulty of making sense, if any, of all that is going on perhaps it is time to take a ...

A retreat into a little bit of history here.  It is an article published on pages 193 to 195 with pictures in an American magazine.  ...

As there is flying about the media and the web debate about full political and financial  union of Europe, a raid on the archive was ...

During the last part of the 20th Century and into the 21st, the UK has embarked on a gigantic social, financial and structural experi...

As it is close to five years since this blog started, it is intriguing how some items do not lose their relevance while others do.  T...

The fashion for anniversaries and their celebration or otherwise is now well entrenched.  Already, despite the fact there are months ...