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My new book: What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax
I have a new book out called What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. In it I take look at the UK tax system and provide non-specialist readers with an easy-to-understand explanation of tax and tax...
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New articles on science and religion/history of science
Although my new book is on What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax, I have been contributing to various books on the history of science, and on science and religion in the last few years. First up, and...
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The Bones of St Leonard's
We visited the seaside at Hythe in Kent, one of the five Cinque ports, on Saturday. Hythe is a pleasant little market town, although nothing like as pretty as Rye or Winchelsea. The highlight of Hythe...
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Blowing up the flat earth
Daniel J. Boorstin was a historian and Librarian of Congress. He is known among historians of science for his absurd claims about the flat earth myth in his book The Discoverers: A History of Man's...
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Three points
1. Jerry Pournelle, science-fiction author extraordinaire, has died. I'm more affected by this than I can justify. I wrote over at Agent Intellect that the universe seems smaller now. I note that less...
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A tribute to my grandmother
My grandmother, Nana, died at the age of 101 late last year. Here's my tribute from her funeral.Nineteen sixteen seems a very long time ago. It was the year of the Battle of the Somme in the midst of...
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Some thoughts on Toby Huff’s The Rise of Early Modern Science
Why did modern science arise in western Europe and nowhere else? If you ever meet a historian of science, for goodness sake, don’t ask them that question. It implies that the West enjoyed some sort of...
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Grand strategy computer games: the ultimate waste of time?
I suffer from an addiction. It’s not a craving for alcohol, tobacco or some other substance. My poisons are computer games like Civilization and Europa Universalis. Civilization is up to its sixth...
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Did Isidore of Seville Think the Earth is Flat? Yes, Probably.
Isidore of Seville (c.560 - 636) was one of the most influential authors of the early Middle Ages. Although he was a long-serving bishop, he wrote on secular subjects as well as religious ones. He’s...
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