pre-historic cave painting

Where were the artists?

09/01/202524/09/2020 by John

While I was clearing the table after breakfast this morning my attention was caught by an item on the radio. It was one of a regular series on BBC Radio 4, entitled In Our Time. I’m not a fan, on the whole, because some aspects of the series (especially its presenter, Melvin Bragg) tend to … Read more

A beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact

09/01/202509/08/2019 by John

An anecdote is told of the great Victorian sociologist and philosopher Herbert Spencer that at least shows him to have had a sense of humour. He was a close friend of the novelist George Eliot, and the story has it that one day, while walking in the garden, Spencer was prompted to run out an … Read more