Thursday, 26 March 2020

Life in the pandemic I: The return of the experts….

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It wasn’t that long ago that some were lamenting the death of reason and the revolt against experts. TV studios were filled with serious l...
Friday, 28 February 2020

Don’t be duped (or even gooped….)

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I may have invented a new word. As far as I can tell there is currently no verb “to goop”. However, goop does exist as both a common and pro...
Friday, 14 February 2020

Surely you’re joking (Mr Feynman)?

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Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist, who is perhaps best known these days for his role in the Rogers Commission which inve...
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...