Sunday, 21 September 2025

Book Review of The Living And The Dead by Christoffer Carlsson

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 (Original novel translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson Broyles)   * * * * (This review is based on a review copy from the publ...
Sunday, 31 August 2025

The Orwell Nobody Quotes

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Since February 2020, it has become apparent to a steadily-growing proportion of thinking people that medical science has fallen into anti-sc...
Friday, 22 August 2025

Are failures in forensic science and criminal justice a symptom of failings in science itself?

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 Below is the text of a comment placed by the blog author on this YouTube video https://youtu.be/sv7Z6OSF6Tg   which may have a far wider re...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Book Review of Anyone Who Tells You That Doctor-assisted Suicide is Always Dignified and Painless is lying: Here is Proof by Jack King

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  * * * * A scientifically-informed polemic on an ethical subject. At 96 pages, this book is an easy read on a diffic...
Friday, 8 August 2025

Book Review of the Shapeshifter’s Daughter by Sally Magnusson

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  * * * * * An absorbing novel about Viking myths in an ancient landscape.    The landscape is that of Orkney and it’s inextricably boun...
Sunday, 3 August 2025

Book Review of “I Am A Cat” Volume One by Natsume Soseki, translated by Nick Bradley

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 * * * *   This is a new translation of a Japanese satirical novel published circa 1905. It is mostly about the relationship between ...
Saturday, 28 June 2025

Film Review of Why Can’t We Talk About This?

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A documentary directed by Dean Rainey   * * * * This is a competent and important documentary made by one vocational film-maker in a sma...