Weltanschaung

The Philosopher’s Stone

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  • ebook Download

    The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026

  • A Moral Dilemma

    My own petty, unimportant and irrelevant moral dilemma should teach me something about the world and how to improve it.

  • Conflict in The Middle East

    An end to “Conflict in The Middle East” is unlikely to be achieved by conventional and time worn solutions which have achieved nothing over the decades.

  • Class War in Journalism and Politics

    Class War in Journalism and Politics is alive and well.  It is business as usual in Parliament and the news papers.

  • With or without Trump, we must back UN’s education drive

    We must ensure that education is not slanted towards any political agenda and is concerned with providing what our children need to make a better world.

  • Utopian descent into Dystopian Horror

    All radical and swift changes imposed on society began as Utopian dreams and descended into Dystopian horror.  Need it always be so?

  • To defeat hatred

    Hatred is a difficult emotion to combat connected as it is with so many other qualia. 

  • Victoria’s Requiem

    Victoria’s Requiem,  written for the funeral of  dowager Empress Maria of Spain who died on February 26, 1603 is sublime.

  • The Hazards of Dramatising the Near Past

    Martha Gill writes  of the hazards of dramatising the near past and asks whether we should delay so as to achieve perspective. 

  • Australia’s lame response to Anwar Ibrahim’s detention

    Elaine Pearson (Australia director at Human Rights Watch) states that Australia’s lame response to Anwar Ibrahim’s detention was a mistake.

  • Meghan Markle’s Royal Knees Up

    I am trying to work out in my own mind my exact feelings about Meghan Markle’s Royal Knees Up and the role of the Royal Family in general.