What Is Wrong with the Left?: The Mechanisms of Messaging
I was asked the other day “what is wrong with the left?” or “where has the left gone wrong?” This is presumably in the context of the UK since this is quite a
Jonathan MS Pearce
Going Nuclear
Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now is proving to be an interesting and thought-provoking read. In this excerpt, he gives an account of how some of our energy and carbo problems are necessarily
A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day
I recently wrote a piece analysing my feelings about and dissecting the local elections in the UK. This was actually shared a number of times across the Internet locally because people of certain
Disenfranchised and Disenchanted: Reflections on the UK Local Elections
Things are bleak in the UK. We are in a very desperate situation whereby we are still, after 11 years, being ruled by an incompetent, corrupt right-wing populist party with our own British
Election Fraud!
We have had to listen to too many people spread too many lies for too many months. The Big Lie needs to be locked up, the key needs to be lost forever, and
New sex education programme for Catholic primaries describes sex and puberty as a ‘gift from God’
This is from Humanists UK: Northern Ireland Humanists has expressed alarm about a new Catholic RSE resource describing sex and puberty as ‘a gift from God’ and claiming puberty shows ‘we are perfectly
On Ridiculous Christian Apologetics, and Whether Mercy Is Undeserved
I have been discussing God's unfairness in the uneven distribution of evidence a lot recently. First, grace was offered as something that God gives out unfairly - it is baked into
"God's Mercy REQUIRES God's Unfairness"
I made some recent debate pieces about whether God is unfair because of the unequal distribution of evidence for his existence over time and place, in which I show that God is morally
Critically Analysing the Resurrection: A Walk-Through
Here is my latest video, walking through my book on the Resurrection of Jesus - The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiNsU2EMSPE Please
If Consciousness Were a Noun...
If consciousness were a noun, your mind would be frozen. You'd be a vegetable.Discuss. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy
Debating the Unequal Evidence Problem Again (IV): Concluding Remarks
A very quick synopsis so far in this debate initially with Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong and then carried on by Catholic Paul Hoffer. Please read the previous pieces for context. This will be
Government announces more than £2 million in funding enabling religious take-over of yet more schools
Man, the UK government sucks. Big time. This is from Humanists UK: Humanists UK has expressed alarm about the potential for a religious power-grab in schools with and without a religious character after