What if the best thing that ever happened to you…
Was not being rich, powerful or famous?
Stuart Patience
A politics of affection
Affection, in the sense that I mean it, is a broad kind of love: a gentler, more abiding, more generous way of feeling-toward, and of… Read More »A politics of affection
Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership
Words from the past for the present. … no name, no power, no function, no artificial institution whatsoever, can make the men, of whom any… Read More »Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership
Driverless Crocodile Knot Course (1): Foundations – The One Knot; or, The Overhand Variations
Disclaimer: I am not much of a climber, nor am I a rope-access technician, nor have I sailed much beyond dingies. Don’t trust your life… Read More »Driverless Crocodile Knot Course (1): Foundations – The One Knot; or, The Overhand Variations
Michael Oakeshott on apprenticeship and practical knowledge: “It takes two generations to learn a profession”
… so impractical is a purely rationalist politics, that the new man, lately risen to power, will often be found throwing away his book [-learned… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on apprenticeship and practical knowledge: “It takes two generations to learn a profession”
Design Matters (25): Wingèd Urinal à la Toto with istinja spout; or, Fount of Knowledge
Auto flush is commonplace, and I assume you’re familiar with the gamification of urination by way of artfully placed fly transfer, designed to help users… Read More »Design Matters (25): Wingèd Urinal à la Toto with istinja spout; or, Fount of Knowledge
Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity
Those societies which retain, in changing circumstances, a lively sense of their own identity and continuity (which are without that hatred of their own experience… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity
Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King
I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society [the English Revolutionary Society, which wrote… Read More »Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King
Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) on getting the right bus
Good or bad, “they’ll take you to places you’d never go alone”.
Luck Magnet: David Elikwu’s ‘Sovereign’ is out now
Only a tiny fraction of the world’s population will ever discover this book. And here you are reading it. What are the odds? Aren’t you… Read More »Luck Magnet: David Elikwu’s ‘Sovereign’ is out now