On "flabby liberalism"
Tony Blair featured in a really interesting article on the BBC yesterday, looking critically at liberalism. I think he had a good many points. I will list some of them here: ...he warns
Jonathan MS Pearce
Clinton Most Reliable, Trump Highest Proportion of Lies, Research Finds
Politifact have been researching the reliability of claims by candidates in the US primaries, and the Republicans do not come out well, especially ole Trumpy. DailyNewsBin reports: The trendy knock on Hillary Clinton,
World Poetry Day - My Atheist Tuppence
With today being World Poetry Day and with the publication of Filling the Void: A Selection of Humanist and Atheist Poetry, which is a book that I am particularly proud of. It'
Why Would Any Believing Character Bother To Fight Against God?
This is a pretty common idea, but it came up in conversation so I thought I'd mention it again. If you were to accept that God is definitely omnipotent, then fighting
Feedback on Zombie Covers Please!
As some of my readers who have been with me over the years will know, I am writing a zombie book. Correction, a series. Correction, have written. The finished manuscript is being run
"So you love paedophiles, then!" - a conspiracy theorist and fallacies
You need to know a few things before reading this: 1) The BBC got into trouble last year for having a serial paedophile (celebrity DJ and charity man Jimmy Savile) about whom I wrote this post about cognitive dissonance. 2) I went to a Skeptics in the Pub talk last night given by Rob Brotherto
Academisation - A Non-Evidence-Based Ideological Crusade on Education. I Am Angry.
At last our schools will be “set free” by George Osborne. They’ll be “free from local bureaucracy”, no longer run by councils but governed instead by academies, such as the one set
Trump IS Inciting Violence and Hatred. He Should Be Stopped
This is a terrible state of affairs. Watch this. It is very, very worrying. (You might need to turn your ad blocker off to see the video). Trump's campaign has been
Animated map shows how the world's first written languages spread
This is a totally cool animated video of the spread of languages. Great stuff. (Ad blockers seem to block it, so turn them off)
After 28 years, Bangladesh revives case to drop Islam as state religion
At a time when the horrific and violent murder of atheist and secular bloggers (much like myself) in the country of Bangladesh has become all too commonplace, it is interesting to read of
Damning Report Church of England's Failure to Act on Abuse
I have given a good deal of coverage to how the Catholic Church has been battered, and rightly so, over abuse scandals. It seems it is the CofE's turn. Over to
Some Questions to Ask God #1: Hell
I promised a number of posts on hell recently. I'm gonna give you hell. In video form. It's an old one (I'm greyer, now), based on questions