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Do Philosophy and Theology actually go together?

Yes, it is a rather surprising view. It might be because he felt that the EU had gone too far into neoliberal cliche: free markets, free movement of finance, free movement of people, privatisation of essential utilities, too strict fiscal policy (promoted particularly by Germany). But of course it ...

Holland has surfaced elsewhere on this site regarding his time at CH but when I Googled him I found the following: "Few living figures can match Stuart Holland's range of experience and insight into both British and European politics."

He was my generation although a little older, and apart from ...

So no response to my points about investing. There must be someone out there who's made a killing by some means or other. The only reason that I mention the subject is because my move a couple of years ago from a house in Gravesend to a modest retirement flat near Brighton (complete with sea view ...

After a long layoff he's back again in the Grauniad (4 March). This time I'm protesting about City attempts to try and wean Cash Isa holders (of which I'm one) off their chosen investment instruments and onto British-based equity plans. I make the point that we've been here before when Thatcher and ...

Looking at these pictures again I think I was hard in a previous post on poor old Brangwyn about them not being colourful enough. It may be that my old place in chapel was opposite the less colourful works. Many do indeed have the lovely blues, purples and ochres that you can find in his other work ...

So how much does go on in day schools? The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse is in no doubt. Summarising its findings it said: "Children in residential schools are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse as a result of their isolation from their families and carers and the involvement of ...

When in Prep B I don't recall our letters being read. Which I suppose was quite generous of Mr Pink who might well have discovered someone writing: "Dear Mum and Dad, Mr Pink tried to put his hand up my shorts yesterday". In the end no-one divulged such contentious information until Summer term 1955 ...

There's an interesting twist on this brushing-it-under-the-carpet business in Robert Verkaik's book 'Posh Boys'. But in this case it comes from the parents. In the 1990s Hampshire Constabulary were investigating abuse at a prep school in Dorset but were hampered by parents of the victims. Ex-chief ...

Just recently I've had to revise my opinion as to what constitutes proper rugby. I've been delving back on You Tube to the British and Irish Lions tours of South Africa in the early 1970s and the viewing is a bit sobering. All-in martial arts would probably be a better way of describing it. I don't ...

Talking of religious lunacy, right on cue, up on this evening's news comes some far-eastern chancer who has persuaded people that slapping is a better cure than conventional medicine. Of course it turns out that he's of an evangelical Christian persuasion. Footage appears of a long line of people ...

Talking of Bunyan, I often wonder how many people there are left who were brought up with these old hymns in chapel or school assembly. Alan Bennett (Northern, working class, grammar school in the postwar years) notes that at funerals and memorial services he is one of a declining few who can ...

My second letter in the august (as opposed to August) current affairs monthly Prospect. And guess what? It's about......boarding schools! Responding to a previous month's article about children's literature I point out that the author had failed to note the metaphorical connection to the English ...

Another outing for the Freakster, in the FT Weekend magazine section. "Were the 80s as much fun as Jilly Cooper says?" by FT columnist Robert Shrimsley, who claimed that people had lots of money to spend. Well one for Banker Brown here who was there at the coalface (or bankface) at the time.
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When I was at CH both Ben Rubbra and Conrad Clark were admired for their precocity. Checking the link and looking at his painting "Valley Cottage Behind A Cherry Tree" painted in 1949 (ie very early), it seems to me to have distinct echoes of the French Expressionist painter Raoul Dufy.