Sunday, 26 January 2020

Faith in aliens….

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I am not a famous ex-anything.   I’m not an ex-premier league footballer making even more of my millions. I’m not an ex-MP or ex-minister ...
Sunday, 5 January 2020

New atheism’s old problem(s)

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Christmas ratings suggest that the demise of network TV may have been overstated. Here in the UK the BBC’s new Dracula drama (a co-product...
Friday, 3 January 2020

Providence or judgement – it’s too early to tell

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In 1972, the then Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was widely misquoted as saying that it was too early to tell whether the French revolution had ...
Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Christmas Reflections III - Even angels can learn...

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There was stuff going on that first Christmas that was normal and ordinary, and then there was the other stuff. The stuff that was neither...
Saturday, 28 December 2019

Christmas Reflections II – Rug weaving for beginners

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I know nothing about weaving patterned rugs. It’s a pity, because this may be a dying art. They don’t seem to be as popular as they used t...
Monday, 23 December 2019

Christmas Reflections I – 1619 and all that…..

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The year 1619 was a long time ago. Neither you nor I were around. It is well beyond living memory or even folk memory (if there is such a ...
Sunday, 1 September 2019

What’s all this about more debate?

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Here’s where my “remain” friends (and most of my friends voted remain) and me probably part company. I suspect most of them have been splu...