November 28, 2022
This cheeky question is often asked in atheist circles. I have two answers, depending on what we are talking about. Answer 1. Everybody and nobody If […]
November 13, 2022
This post is a plug for the talk by Iain McGilchrist which went live on Friday. Entitled ‘The Brain and a Sense of the Sacred’, it’s […]
October 25, 2022
It isn’t clear what Conservatives think conservatism is any longer: what aspect of actually existing British society (rather than ersatz Victorian fantasy) they seek to conserve, […]
October 15, 2022
This post is a continuation of my last one in which I argued that the economic policy of the British Government is a replica of ancient […]
September 26, 2022
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Financial Statement of 23 September has gone down badly with the financial markets, economics thinktanks and even a good few Conservative […]
September 7, 2022
On 1st September the long-awaited report on the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith process was published: Listening with Love and Faith. It’s not […]
August 24, 2022
This is the second of two responses to William Cavanaugh’s The Myth of Religious Violence. I wasn’t expecting it to be bang up to date with […]
August 15, 2022
This post is the first of two responses to William Cavanaugh’s excellent The Myth of Religious Violence (2009). It has challenged my understanding of the ‘religious […]
July 28, 2022
It looks like we are in for a few months of strikes. As more and more people are being financially squeezed, resistance is increasing. The media, […]