How I plan to get more block posts written using an ingenious app.
Should we take a long-term view of our altruistic behaviour? It sounds logical that we should. But really a whole book on the subject makes me doubt it.
I wrote this at the time but didn’t publish it. I have just rediscovered it. You don’t get historic events along very often, and even more rarely do you get to watch them roll out in realtime on the television while being able to discuss them with just about anyone else on the planet.
When I was a teenager, the ticketing arrangement at the local cinema with that you bought a ticket at the box office and this gave you admittance to the cinema and any of the three screens available for as long as you wished. It was quite normal to stay and watch more than one film.
The Brexit project is in trouble. It is no longer popular, with large polling leads for rejoining. It isn’t working particularly well, with Britain’s economy certainly no better as a result of it and quite likely doing much worse. Investment is way down, which is alarming for the future. And most galling of all for
Dr Johnson said of Milton’s Paradise Lost – all admire it, but few wish it longer.