Pwned again – LSESU wrong on own rules (updated)
I wouldn't normally pull a comment out into an individual post but on this occasion the issue, though simple, is important enough to warrant giving it a high degree of prominence. In reponse to my...
View ArticleHolocaust Memorial Day – Bronowski at Auschwitz
Every year I give some thought to the question of how best to mark Holocaust Memorial Day... ...and every year I come back to same thing, this video of Jacob Bronowski at Auschwitz, from the landmark...
View ArticleHow not to do pro-choice
What is it with Student Unions? Even when they do something right, they manage to get something badly wrong at the same time. Following a referendum in which 3300 students cast their votes - out of...
View ArticleO.Q. – Original Quacksters*
I think its time for Andrew Brown to move on from The Guardian to a publisher like Elsevier where his regular opinion column can be given a more appropriate title. Something along the lines of 'The...
View ArticleTwo Peas in a Totalitarian Pod
I must admit that I'm somewhat surprised to see some people making a meal the sight of Sayeeda Warsi cosying up to the Pope and buying wholesale into the Catholic Church's absurd rhetorical attacks on...
View ArticleFail of the House of Lusher
Over at the Richard Dawkins Foundation, the great man himself has posted a fascinating and, to say the least, illuminating account of a telephone conversation with a reporter from the Telegraph which...
View ArticleChristina Odone’s Persecution Complex
What's the difference between a blogger and newspaper columnist? The answer, more often than not, is that a blogger actually takes the time to investigate a story before committing their thoughts to...
View ArticleECHR, Same-sex Marriages and The Daily Telegraph
It's been widely observed that, since it was taken over by Barclay Brothers, The Daily Telegraph has noticeably shifted downmarket and has come to resemble a broadsheet version of the Daily Mail. What...
View ArticleSkeptic faces threat of 3 year sentence for exposing weeping statue scam
India prides itself on being the world's largest secular democracy but when you scratch the surface of that claim just a little that claim starts to look rather shaky as Indian skeptic and rationalist...
View ArticleDear Rationalist Association… fix your petition, please! UPDATED
Update #2 - 15:20pm, 8 June 2012 The Rationalist Association have now updated their petition to reflect the information in this post and the discussion we had this morning, so the comments below are...
View ArticleAnd all I said to my wife was: “That piece of halibut was good enough for...
By now I'm sure you're aware of the fact that Maajid Nawaz, a Lib Dem PPC in Hampstead and Kilburn, stands accused of committing the thoroughly heinous crime of causing religiously aggravated butthurt...
View ArticleJesus & Mo and Channel 4 News
So, without wishing to waste time recapping events that are probably already familiar to most of my regular readers, the ongoing shitstorm of the wonderful Jesus and Mo cartoon strip started with this...
View ArticleCreationist Zoos and ‘Quality’ Badges
A brief story published in the Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury seems to be provoking a fair degree of head-scratching on Twitter at the moment for what I hope should be fairly obvious reasons: Zoo’s...
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