Author Archives: Graham Veale
Margaret Thatcher and the Ninth Commandment
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR.
The purport of the commandment is, since God, who is truth, abhors falsehood, we must cultivate unfeigned truth towards each other. The sum, therefore, will be that we must not by calumnies and false accusations injure our neighbour’s name …Calvin’s Institutes
Now there’s something we’ve forgotten – the importance of a name.
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The era of Western supremacy is drawing to an end as the colossal economies of China and India become as technologically advanced as Europe and America . Little wonder, then, that our appetite for apocalyptic fiction is growing. However, it is more than a little surprising to discover that end-times fiction has given an old B-Movie star – the zombie –a new lease of life.
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