A friend of mine wrote a public post recently. About how in the Middle Ages Jesuits were burning people for their new ideas and witches were hunted and killed. The post has ended with how lucky we are that those dark ages are over. Is there anything wrong with what he wrote? I think there is. […]
The Green Party is calling for a one-off tax on large companies making record profits of late due to high inflation fuelled by the pandemic, energy crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Under the windfall tax proposal, the money raised would then support people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. “An excess profit tax would be […]
It was supposed to be raining yesterday … it wasn’t. It was quite murky due to the outgoing tide and the spring plankton bloom. Still quite an enjoyable dive with sea hares everywhere in the shallows and plenty of juvenile fish in a deeper channel among rocks. Location: Matheson Bay, Leigh, New Zealand Včera malo […]
For a life devoted to accumulating wealth, which would have killed nobler instincts in any one of us, had evidently seemed to him quite normal and left him with every appetite of justice and of love of nation unimpaired. — Hilaire Belloc, The Jews What does the pursue of wealth accumulation does to us? Can […]
In order then that the social compact may not be an empty formula, it tacitly includes the undertaking, which alone can give force to the rest, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body. This means nothing less than that he will be forced to […]
Osobnost v neděli blahořečeného papeže Jana Pavla I. vyvolává dodnes mnohé otázky. V uzavřenosti církve, jejíž část si dosud ráda pěstuje až jakýsi mystický nádech sektářské výjimečnosti, se o Albinu Lucianim mluví daleko víc v souvislosti s jeho krátkým pontifikátem a „záhadnou“ smrtí, než aby se reflektovalo jeho dílo jako biskupa Vittorio Veneto, jako benátského […]