by Andy Dodd | Jun 30, 2015 | On My Mind, Politics
In my previous two posts in this series, I’ve looked at George Osborne’s invoking of Victorian values as the bedrock of his economic strategy for this Parliament. I’ve questioned whether this is a necessary or even practical approach to solving the social and economic...
by Andy Dodd | Jun 21, 2015 | On My Mind, Politics
In my previous post, I looked at the question of whether a return to the fiscal rectitude of Victorian values was needed. I concluded that it wasn’t and owed more to that eternal right wing objective to permanently shrink public spending rather than any exigent...
by Andy Dodd | Jun 20, 2015 | Extemplo
Read an interesting quote from Bertrand Russell (on St. Thomas Aquinas) that seems to nail the central issue non-religious people have with faith and those who profess it: “Aquinas “already knows the truth; it is declared in the Catholic faith. If he can find...
by Andy Dodd | Jun 19, 2015 | On My Mind, Politics
British politicians love Victorian values. Especially conservative ones. Show them a crisis and someone, somewhere, is bound to advocate a return to the period when the sun never set on the British empire. Some of them are so enthralled by the nineteenth century that...
