Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Sunday, 10 August 2025

A singular example of wokery


The other day Life Site News website carried a report of a wondrous example of contemporary wokery in respect of infanticide and attitudes to pre-Columbian societies in South America.

I will let readers look at it and let you ponder the utter fatuity of Emily Pool, who from her name must surely be from the British Isles.


My response would be to quote a longstanding friend who once opined over the breakfast table to a group of us that “The best thing any dago ever did was stamping out native South American religion”

And so, I hope, say all of us.

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