# bad times — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bad times. Page: Feed: --- ## [How to Educate](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/how-to-educate) _2026-08-03 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Education can be a hot potato in politics, and temperatures are rising yet again with indications that Andy Burnham wishes to put practical and academic education on an equal footing, focusing on relevance to today’s world and its exigencies. ## [Clarity and the Constitution](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/clarity-and-the-constitution) _2026-08-02 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Among the spate of initiatives announced by Andy Burnham in his first week as the UK’s Prime Minister is his proposal for greater devolution of powers to the regions and the idea of codifying the constitution. ## [Morals and Laws](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/morals-and-laws) _2026-07-26 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ In the palmy year of 1874 the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement (WCTM), which had been founded in Cleveland, Ohio, presented a petition to Congress in Washington calling for the ‘making, selling, importation and exportation of intoxicating liquors’ to be banned. ## [Word Clusters](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/word-clusters) _2026-07-21 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Though my political sympathies lie within the spectrum of the cluster ‘left, liberal, progressive’ (not a coterminous set of terms) I find myself agreeing with an important point made by R. ## [Dred Scott and Today](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/dred-scott-and-today) _2026-07-18 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ In everything that Trump and MAGA do in the way of pushing back against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and asserting White Supremacist values (‘values’) there sound the echoes of the worst-ever Supreme Court decision in US history, the Dred Scott case. ## [Red Alert](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/red-alert) _2026-07-17 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Trump’s primetime television speech on Thursday 16 July was about ‘election vulnerabilities’, focusing on outside influence primarily from China, and the fallibility of voting machines and processes. ## [Straitened by Hormuz](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/straitened-by-hormuz) _2026-07-15 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Dr Johnson, the Great Panjandrum of literature, said that ‘quotation is the parole of the literary man’. ## [Ra-Ra](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/ra-ra) _2026-07-13 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Ancient Egyptians literally saw their god, and felt its power on their backs, on a daily basis. ## [Cortrumption](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/cortrumption) _2026-07-11 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Democracy is about voters picking their politicians, not politicians picking their voters. ## [One and All](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/one-and-all) _2026-07-05 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Here is a personal note. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/m6SrOC33HnIz) _2026-07-05 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Cherries and Golf Balls](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/cherries-and-golf-balls) _2026-07-02 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Washington DC is famous among other things for its springtime cherry blossoms. ## [The Summer of ‘76](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-76) _2026-06-25 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Few will now remember the Labour politician Denis Howell, later Lord Howell of Aston Manor, who in the famously long hot summer of 1976 was appointed Minister for Drought. ## [Footprints in Water](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/footprints-in-water) _2026-06-24 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ I met the late and much lamented Arjen Hoekstra, ‘Mr Water Footprint’, in the Antarctic in 2015. ## [Perpetual Peace](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/perpetual-peace) _2026-06-23 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ For weather like this a Jon Snow – a King of the North – seems to be the order of the day, Mancunian levels of precipitation and temperature looking most desirable at present. ## [Ultimate Things](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/ultimate-things) _2026-06-21 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ That great philosopher Oscar Wilde said, ‘Most people are other people. ## [Rejoin March 20 June 2026 London](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/rejoin-march-20-june-2026-london) _2026-06-17 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Join us at the National Rejoin March this Saturday, 20 June 2026 ## [Bad Times](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/bad-times) _2026-06-17 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Bad times are times of opportunity. ## [Only Connect](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/only-connect) _2026-06-11 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ As someone perennially allergic to conspiracy theories I once found it hard to accept quite everything said about a Far-Right campaign to sew discord by promoting violent racist outbursts such as those over the Henry Nowak murder and the Belfast stabbing in recent days. ## [Another Thing](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/another-thing) _2026-05-03 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Another thing, among many, that Trump does not understand is the nature of legacy. ## [Truth, Whole, and Nothing But](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/truth-whole-and-nothing-but) _2026-04-21 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_ Chapeau big time to French Senator Claude Malhuret. ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/a1yPUhsvzYZY) _2026-04-21 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## Good Times Bad Times _2026-04-15 · The Doerfels · Them_ Good Times Bad Times by The Doerfels [Listen](https://www.doerfelverse.com/tracks/good-times-bad-times.mp3) ## 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In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those Continue reading Bounce the Baby