A case of censorship and wrongful imprisonment?
This has absolutely nothing to do with Wikileaks. Or maybe it does. All stories like this have two sides, and it's inevitable that we only get to see one side of it - and perhaps therein lies the Wiki…
Tagged: philosophy
Liberals and 'acceptable' bigotry
The last visit from a Pope to the UK before the most recent one was back in 1982 - I'm old enough to remember that one. I was just finishing university at the time, and I remember doing some revision…
All things
A Facebook friend of mine (and an author whose work I've admired for over years) Jessica Lipnack shared this article – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-currie-jr/things-i-learned-while-wr_b_659568.ht…
Demonising Tories...or anyone...is so last century...
Now that the smoke of battle (and confusion) of General Election 2010 has cleared and we have a Coalition Government that hasn't yet been proven to be the spawn of Beelzebub, can I make a suggestion t…
Politically Correctly Dead
This story is desperately, tragically sad on a number of levels, and also makes me pretty angry. Read the story - unless you've had a very sheltered life (oh, working in the public sector or the hall…
Civil Partership ceremonies on religious premises....some contradiction in terms?
Over the last decade or so, the number of times when New Labour has created legislation in what 'the Simpsons' would call 'the American way' - i.e. do a 'half arsed job' - has been legion. There must…
I sometimes wonder....
As some of you will know, I'm what's best described as an (occasionally) practising Christian. Just to get the joke out of the way early, I'll keep practising and one day I hope to get it right! Yes…
Shock Doctrine comes to Haiti?
A couple of years ago Naomi Klein wrote a fascinating - and scary - book called'Shock Doctrine' in which she presented the thesis that what we now call 'free market capitalism' - that form of capitali…
If this is being a Man, I bagsy being a Penguin...
I have a thing for penguins. I have no idea why, but they appeal to me. It all started 20 odd years ago when I saw the 'Bloom County' cartoon strip that featured Opus the penguin (he who features wh…
Dumb beyond reason - Children's Commissioner suggests raising English Age of Criminality
Regular readers of this blog will realise that there are certain hobby horses that I have. One is that I ask for little from Government except that they do what only Governments CAN and SHOULD do, an…