An entertaining impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An ... more
intellectual call to arms Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In Britain an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher whose ambition was to reassert 'Victorian values'. In Iran the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1 300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989 Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History. What colonised the space recently vacated by notions of history progress and reason? Cults quackery gurus irrational panics moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo. Modernity was challenged by a gruesome alliance of pre-modernists and post-modernists medieval theocrats and New Age mystics. It was as if the Enlightenment had never happened.Francis Wheen winner of the George Orwell prize evokes the key personalities of the post-political era -- including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra Osama Bin-Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer -- while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. From UFO scares to dotcom mania his hilarious and gloriously impassioned polemic describes a period in the world's history when everything began to stop making sense.
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Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Christopher Ettridge, Victor McGuire, Emma Amos, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Elizabeth Carling
Advantages: Good Selection Of Food, Value For Money Disadvantages: Not A Lot For Vegetarians
The last few years have seen a trend of "All you can eat" style Buffet Restaurants appearing in Sheffield where I live and to my knowledge there are now at least three Chinese and one Indian within the city centre.
The Jumbo is a large Chinese Buffet and it was the also the first of the bunch to appear about three years ago. It is in direct competition with another Chinese Buffet nearby called No.1 which is larger.
I have been to the No.1 a couple of times but I much prefer the Jumbo which I have visited many times, the most recent of these visits being just a couple of weeks ago.
THE LAYOUT
The Restaurant is situated on two different levels with a small Bar area located just inside the doorway.
The food is located at the back at of the room on the ground level, with the tables positioned in front of this area. Whilst ...
Advantages: A moderately-entertaining examination of modern delusions Disadvantages: A little too dull in places
I suppose that for most of us there eventually comes a time when we decide that the world has gone to the dogs. We shake our heads wearily and insist on telling anyone who will listen that things were far better in the good old days. It's a natural feeling to have, especially when age begins to solidify our attitudes as much as our joints. It's a feeling journalist Francis Wheen seems to have, if his book, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, is to be believed. Yet Mr Wheen goes further by suggesting that not only are we now increasingly indifferent to those good old days but that we are also abandoning the reasonable and "humane values of the Enlightenment", the core foundations of our modern civilisation, and replacing them with quackery and universal nonsense; in short, that we are meekly surrendering our hard-won world of reason to ...
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