Easyjet – we don’t forget

If you want to know if EasyJet PLC give a damn about their customers… read on. Sunday September 30th, 2018. We were at Malaga airport sitting in our seats in EasyJet Flight EZY1924 to Manchester, where we would connect with another EasyJet flight to Preveza in Greece, for a week with friends Jan and SueContinue reading “Easyjet – we don’t forget”

My Quora answers

Well some of them at least… If the Earth has been proven to be a flat spinning disc, why don’t we fly off the edge due to centrifugal force? Proof is the preserve of mathematicians and the manufacturers of hard liquor. So no scientist would ever claim that the Earth was ‘proven’ to be anything.Continue reading “My Quora answers”

The end of democracy?

Introduction My name is Rod Jones, and perhaps some of you may know me from Quora where I’ve recently discovered that my contributions have been read nearly 4 million times, with more than 92,000 upvotes… very gratifying! My stuff on Quora has been as diverse as politics, climate change, cosmology and map-making, and mostly IContinue reading “The end of democracy?”

America… beautiful but dumb?

America has vibrant cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, etc. and stunning and diverse scenery including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and the Sierra Nevadas, The Adirondacks, Glacier National Park, Zion National Park, Yellowstone, and Death Valley. For years, people from other countries aspired to live in America, or at a minimum,Continue reading “America… beautiful but dumb?”