by David West | May 4, 2023 | News
On Wednesday Claire and I visited Westwood Manor, a nearby National Trust property. King Ethelred II (the Unready) granted the land to his thegn, Alfnoth in AD983. For three centuries three families lived on the manor: Culverhouse (1434 – 1500), Horton (1518...
by David West | May 2, 2023 | News
I want to talk about time and space, but I’m not going to try and reconcile quantum theory with relativity. I’m interested, but incapable. My cousin Bill and his wife Sue are over from Canada, and we gave them a tour of Oxford and Bath. Bill’s knee was giving him some...
by David West | May 1, 2023 | News
DNA is part of what makes us who we are, and DNA analysis is an important part of crime detection now. Talking of which, I have just finished reading the latest edition of Red Herrings, the bulletin of the Crime Writers Association. As usual, several nuggets caught my...
by David West | Apr 29, 2023 | News
Colin Bloom led a review into government’s relationship with religious faiths. The government recently published his report Does government ‘do God?’ Bloom divides the population into true believers, non-believers, and make-believers. The clarity of the first two...
by David West | Apr 25, 2023 | News
Is there a difference between anti-semitism and racism? The Labour Party have suspended Diane Abbot as an MP following her comments in a letter to the Observer. She wrote that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people “undoubtedly experience prejudice”, which she said...
by David West | Apr 24, 2023 | News
Why seven best quotes on writing? My publicist Brian Feinblum posted some advice on blog posts for selling books today. He says you have to have a catchy title like seven best, 6 ways to, 9 benefits of, etc. I thought I’d try following his advice, so here goes. I’ve...
