You probably have seen this image used online whenever someone, usually on the progressive left, wants to counter someone arguing for more unrestricted free speech laws: There is a huge problem with it, as it totally changes Popper’s argument, and argues something that Popper himself did not. In fact, it…

Francis Bacon, 1620: Once the human mind has favoured certain views, it pulls everything else into agreement with and support for them. …

“ Agreeableness is a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioural characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm, and considerate” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness ….. “In the United States, people in the West, Midwest, and South tend to have higher average scores on agreeableness than people living in other regions.[49] According…

Growing up, it used to be all about Ozone layer, now it’s CO2 (Carbon dioxide). CO2 is currently at a slightly higher level (400ppm) in our atmosphere than it has been for thousands of years. We’re told this is bad and the public and campaigners rarely bother to question the…

Swiss topographic maps, nuff said innit. Here’s a zoom out I just did from the Swiss Federal Office of Topography website that I think gives a good idea of the Swiss design map gods.

I’ve written before (also this) about the recent rise in academics and public intellectuals (some who have no interest in sport) giving their queasy support to legalising all forms of drugs in sports. A few years ago I also wrote this about the decrease in individualists in football. Individual superiority…

In unsurprising news, The Online Department Of All That Is Morally Correct And Globally Progressive, has finally had a blogger’s head explode at the sight of Britain doing well at the Olympics. Simon Jenkins recent article on the whole affair sums up their sneering condescension position on Olympic sport well…

Ignoring the highly suspect post-vote media hysteria I thought I’d look at all the reasons why I thought, as a leftist, a vote to leave the EU was a positive step towards a more progressive world, and Europe. Democracy. The EU is not democratic, at least not the sense where…

Some intellectual sports writers such as Matthew Syed, Malcolm Gladwell and famed non-sports philosophers such as ethicist Peter Singer, have tried to take what they appear to see as a progressive and practical common-sense stance on why we should should legalise all drugs in sport, and just be done with…