An English bibliotaph of fifty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), films and trivia. Acting secretary of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats. Candidate for Neath in the Westminster elections of 1997 & 2017 and the Welsh general election of 2016.
Monday 17 May 2021
Keynes on civilisation
"Civilization is a thin and precarious crust, erected by the personality and will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved" - JM Keynes, My Early Beliefs (1938)
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