CLIVE JAMES Clive James, man of many talents, roles and names to fame, admits that on some occasions when he spoke he did not know what he was...
Thanks, culldav. One could extend your comment about "how many gins" to write a commentary on the important role that alcohol plays in the entire...
It's been more than 3 months since anyone posted on this thread. With the passing of Malcolm Fraser two days ago I'll shift the direction of this...
David(D): The link you provided does confirm my previous suspicions and belief that Christianity was a major contributing factor in the Fall of...
Part 1: I'll open and close with a little summary on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, a complex subject if ever there was one. To save...
There is a program on ABC Radio National in Australia entitled "Ockhams Razor". I've been listening to it for years. It is a soap box for all...
There is no rush, David; I find that the more I know, the more complex it gets. Keeping it simple, I find, is really quite impossible. There are,...
As in many areas of life, David, I think I have made things more difficult for myself than I needed to, but "such is life" ---at least in my...
Part 1: I've often thought, David, that necessity is the mother of invention. In an address to the Mathematical Association of England on the...
An enjoyable read, David, but I have run out of steam for today and, once I've taken my evening meds I'm not much good for anything but a slow...
Section 1: I share your concern, culldav, about the partisan political world that comes at us all day after day and night after night; indeed,...
Part 1: The above posts from culldav, giving him nearly 3000 posts here at this site, enough to make a collector's edition of several volumes,...
Thanks, Gwendoline! Maintaining one's enthusiasm is crucial in so many ways. After more than 50 years(1960 to 2014) of reading and studying,...
I think culldav is perfectly correct insofar as some utopian democracy is concerned. My own view is not significantly unlike that of Clive James...
The above two participants, culldav and DominorVobis, have both raised some good questions about qualifications for office, for vision, indeed,...
There we are, m2catter, with breakfast down the hatch I'll start to deal with your excellent, but not simple to deal with, questions. The future...
I thank you, m2catter, for your kind and generous sentiments. I'l have a go at your post, and its questions, after some breakfast of my meds, my...
Since I was the person who started this thread, a thread that has now followed a circuitous route over many aspects of the current and past...
Well, Dominor Vobis/Guru, I can see that your Dad is benefitting, as I am, from the wonders of modern medicine. My mother used to say back in the...
I thank Dominor Vobis for his generous compliment. Even in the evening of my life I still appreciate such encouraging remarks. They help to...
I started this now lengthy thread with the following words: When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues,...
The literature on "The Dismissal" in November 1975 has burgeoned in the nearly 40 years since the event too place. Social scientists, political...
Thanks, Dominor Vobis; I like your quotation: "When you want to fight fire with fire, remember that the professionals use water." You might enjoy...
The law and constitutional issues, at the centre of the Dismissal, are little known by your average punter. Indeed, the nature of democracy has...
I liked your quotation, Steady Pie: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed...
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