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Peter Keeble

Dec 10, 20201 min read

A Second Mystery: Winning Bets on Tossing a Coin

It's basic statistics that if you throw a fair coin its history of heads or tails tells you nothing about the next throw - to think...

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Peter Keeble

Dec 10, 20201 min read

A Mystery

If you focus a camera set to a wide aperture (eg f2) on some nearby object out of doors then this throws more distant objects out of...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 27, 20201 min read

Albert Camus' The Outsider meets Nashville

Having read and discussed this as part of the Pinner Philsophy Group's consideration of Exitentialism the following lines from the song...

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Peter Keeble

Nov 25, 20194 min read

Republicanism in the UK

Edmund Burke was a great political thinker of the eighteenth century and one of his key tenets was that constitutional change should be...

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Peter Keeble

Oct 10, 20191 min read

Dylan Stone sewing shirts

What an interesting event! You entered the basement of a drycleaners and there was Dylan with piles of material and a sewing machine...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 22, 20192 min read

SHAW'S ARMS AND THE MAN

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw We attended the penultimate performance of this late nineteenth century play at the City of...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 14, 20191 min read

Times Correspondent thinks Sun is 26,000 light years away

So terrified of making them myself, I take a perverse pleasure in finding whopping big errors. It's clearly just an oversight, but The...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 11, 20191 min read

Rule of Recognition

I'm a bit puzzled about the grounds on which the Scottish court ruled Johnson's proroguing of Parliament unlawful - it does smack a bit...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 11, 20191 min read

Roy Greenfield

AS are many of his former pupils, very saddened by news of Roy's death earlier this year. He was a wonderful teacher and a kind and calm...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 10, 20191 min read

Is Tolerance Enough? (9 Sept 2019)

Selina O'Grady and A C Graying were in conversation on the subject of the former's book, "In the Name of God: A History of Christian and...

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Peter Keeble

Sep 8, 20191 min read

So Close

so now only a drawn series is possible.

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17 September 2020

The Pinner Philosophy Group recently discussed The Outsider by Camus as an example of an Existentialist text. I'm reminded

of the words of the song in the closing moments of Robert Altman's fabulous film, Nashville:

It don't worry me,

it don't worry me.

You may say that I aint free

but it don't worry me.