Sunday, 26 March 2017

Casanova, Northern Ballet (Festival Theatre: 23 – 25 March ’17)

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[Below is the text of my review which first appears on the Edinburgh49.org review website] https://edinburgh49.org/2017/03/24/casanova-nor...
Friday, 17 February 2017

Global Population and Energy

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I had not heard of Hans Rosling before I saw his 2013 programme Don’t Worry: The Truth about Population which the BBC re-aired after Roslin...
Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Preserving Oilfield History

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Last week I gave a lecture to a small audience of post-graduate students at Heriot-Watt’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering.  The topic wa...
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Saturday, 7 January 2017

UK Politics, 2016.

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A lot of people will be glad to see the end of 2016 and in the political sphere, it was indeed a bad year to be a liberal.  I am going to t...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Fake News and the Age of Cynicism.

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We live in an age where knowledge has never been so widely or cheaply available.  The results are all around us: the computer device you ar...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Take the Time

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When the World feels like sanity   Is in short supply   And reality is a commodity   That most people   Has called “Sell”   Rather than...
Sunday, 25 September 2016

The Royal Yacht Britannia: an Appeal to Boris Johnson

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The Rt. Hon Boris Johnson Esq. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Foreign and Commonwealth Office Downing Street...