I increasingly think my writing is somewhat futile. The threat from climate change is now a certainty, and writing blogs, or books, seems a bit like s...
When I was a boy my two friends and I were fascinated, like all boys, with car engines. We read stories and watched films where brave men in clean ove...
The Iraq denialists and the climate change denialists are increasingly identical in their outputs. Have always been similar, not least because they we...
I think the time has come to get rid of theology departments from universities. Theology is a fake. Like Scientology, it is an activity appropriating...
Probably happened after the Greeks and Persians had finished hacking each other to pieces. Certainly happened after the English archers had destroyed...
Let us imagine, you and I, gentle reader, that the evangelicals have triumphed, and that the teaching of evolution is banned in schools, and all books...
Read Slaughterhouse 5 again the other day, in homage to the great man. Two things struck me like a plane hitting Sugarbush Mountain. When I first read...
All of the western countries fighting Germany and Japan in the Second World War realized that they needed to go on a war footing to meet the enormous ...
The parties of the left are the young at heart who are flexible minded, educated, and are always right; the conservative parties are the stick in the mud, old in mind who are always wrong.
