'Extremist' nurseries to lose funding - Nicky Morgan
The post-Trojan horse shenanigans rumble on. The BHA are riding the secular wave - good on 'em. The BBC reports: Councils are to be given powers to stop funding early-years providers with
Jonathan MS Pearce
Does capitalism promote social mobility?
In debating this topic on another blog post with Geoff Roberts, I came across this book review of a book which seems to deal very much with this question. I think this review makes for a fascinating read. Let me know what you think:
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!
Sometimes you just want to open the window and shout at the world. Whether it be religious fundamentalism in the Middle East, or creeping religionism in an age of would-be secularism, or Hobby
Our brains judge a face's trustworthiness, even when we can’t see it
This fascinating article is from ScienceDaily. It is something I have talked about before with friends, that you can tell so much about a person (or at least think you can) from a cursory look to the face. And, indeed, your brain is doing n awful lot of this non-conscious computation along those lin
The Atonement properly ridiculed
OK, so we know that Nonstampcollector is genius. His return to for in this one is great, especially when the angels visit Jesus in the tomb at around 5 minutes or so.
Help on zombies needed
I am hoping to get my zombie book written over the remainder of the summer holidays. I have written some 30,000 words of setting the scene but now it is coming on
Rick Wiles: 'Ebola Could Solve America's Problems With Atheism And Homosexuality'
RIGHTWINGWATCH provides this gem: H/T Anonymous Steve [soundcloud]http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-ebola-could-solve-americas-problems-atheism-and-homosexuality[/soundcloud] Right before chatting with a Republican congressman on his on “Trunews” program yesterday, End Times radio host
SINergy: Skeptic Ink's New Vodcast/Podcast!!
We are working, here at SIN, to offer readers of the network a range of ways of interacting with what we do, to stay ahead of the game. We have our media channel,
Real Conversion Story #8 - Kaveh Mousavi
Kaveh Mousavi is a blogger over at Freethought Blogs (FTB) who very kindly reviewed my Beyond An Absence of Faith book on his One the Margin of Error blog. He is an atheist living in Iran; I have a lot of respect for such courageous people. Here is his account: I already have written a very l
Jesus mythicism. My opinion.
I am quite often asked as to whether I am a Jesus mythicist. David Fitzgerald, in that camp, kindly wrote the foreword for my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination, and Derek Murphy,
Reminder: Myself and Skeptic Inkers on the Skeptic Canary Show
Just a reminder to check us out! http://youtu.be/89gKiYZ3pN8
What is fundamentalism?
The term fundamentalism is bandied about with wild abandon, but what does it really mean? We have an intuitive sense of what it means, perhaps. When I use the term, I have in my mind ideas of hardliner, fanatical beliefs, adhered to by uncompromising believers in a dogmatic insistence that a partic