Author Archives: Jon Garvey

Avatar photo

About Jon Garvey

Training in medicine (which was my career), social psychology and theology. Interests in most things, but especially the science-faith interface. The rest of my time, though, is spent writing, playing and recording music.

Ox and ass before him bow…

Happy Boxing Day, all you labourers going from house to house for your Christmas boxes! Yes, very nice, thank you, driving over to Sussex to our daughter’s family. Missing our turning off the A30 in thick fog was a bit of a bummer, though.

Posted in History, Theology | Leave a comment

The DNA of the babe in the stable

I’ve just read David Mitchell’s book Jesus – the Incarnation of the Word. I bought it after seeing the author interviewed by Seth Postell, an Israeli Christian academic whose work I reference in my own Generations of Heaven and Earth, but it turns out to be pretty seasonally appropriate for a Christmas blog.

Posted in Science, Theology | Leave a comment

Revisiting Genesis cosmology

More seasoned readers of The Hump will remember its emphasis on “origins” before it started to document how the world has finally gone completely mad. One recurring theme was to refute the claim that the Bible, and Genesis 1 in particular, teaches an erroneous “Middle East obsolete science cosmology.” The matter broadly boils down to the proper consideration of genre.

Posted in Creation, History, Science, Theology, Theology of nature | 1 Comment

Total insanity is no fun

Tom Lehrer claimed to have given up songwriting because the US political situation had become too ridiculous for satire. Things are so much worse now that satire itself has virtually died (apart from woke virtue signalling posing as satire, and distinguished by provoking vomiting rather than laughter). Likewise, a blog like this, which currently majors on pointing out societal evils, is in danger of having simply to say, “Everything around you is insane – there’s nothing else to say.” But I’ll try for now to keep on at least making some sense of things.

Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science | 5 Comments

A longer, even more authoritative COVID report

Last month I cited Martin Sewell’s Edinburgh-based review of COVID and the calamitous measures taken against it, recommending it as a reference. Now there’s an even more authoritative paper – the final report of the US Congress’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronovirus Pandemic, 520 delicious pages of scathing critique.

Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science | 2 Comments

Public noninformation inquiry…

…at the expense of a disposable murder victim Since 2022 I’ve been on a journey – or less dramatically, exploring another byway – about the case of the 2018 poisoning of the Skripals, which you can look up if you don’t remember. From searching the blog, I see I’ve hinted at it rather than explaining it extensively. But perhaps my best summary is here, where I compare it to the equally dubious story about the poisoning and subsequent death this year of Alexei Navalny, an unsavory man set up by the West to simulate a serious “democratic” (in its current, weasel-word, sense) rival to Vladimir Putin.

Posted in History, Politics and sociology | 2 Comments

The New Thing – State Noninformation

Every now and again, one small item of information (or in the modern context, “malinformation” since it is truth that questions government policy) makes a large number of mysterious things plain. This piece by citizen journalist Silver Fox does that for me.

Posted in Politics and sociology | 2 Comments

Free speech on Queer Street

There’s a good article by Steven Tucker at Daily Sceptic on the sinister connotations of Queer Theory, which I first wrote about here in 2018. In this piece I want to add how, whether or not “queering” is intended to destroy society, nevertheless it will inevitably do so if permitted to continue. I add a few thoughts on how freedom of speech relates to that.

Posted in Philosophy, Politics and sociology, Theology | 3 Comments

Socialism = monopolist corporatism

One of the things that marks the satanic nature of the globalist “democratic” agenda, which we must attribute in spades to Keir Starmer as both an avowed supporter of the WEF and a past member of the Trilateral Commission, is the obsessive concealment of its aims from the people, the demos. True, all the unpalatable global aims are on public display on the relevant organisations’ own websites, as I’ve pointed out many times before. But control of the media, both curating the narrative and supplying distractions hedonistic and dystopian, ensures that most people remain in the dark. The real reason for mass immigration, for example – that is covering up … Continue reading

Posted in Politics and sociology | 5 Comments

Guthrie Govan – my part in his career

Here’s a low-stress piece for a snowy day here in Britain. Looking on YouTube for a particular musician a year or so ago, I found a clip in which he was playing with a guitarist called Guthrie Govan. The guitarist was stonkingly good. In characteristic YouTube fashion the algorithms then kept offering me other clips demonstrating not only his astonishingly brilliant technique, range of styles, and sheer musicality (in these days of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift), but his ability as a teacher. By all accounts he’s a really nice bloke as well.

Posted in Music | 3 Comments