Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic VI: Bigging up science - but a bit too much?

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You may not have heard of Jennifer Doudna. But then there was a time when no one had heard of Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein. And of cour...
Friday, 12 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic V: Trump and the tragedy of the closed Bible.

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You may perhaps have seen the video or the photographs. On Tuesday 2 nd June, President Trump emerged from the White House and walked with...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Life in the Pandemic IV: Where should we place our faith?

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There is a lot of faith about at the moment (something I noted previously ). Some of it is obvious, some of it less so. But it’s there. In...
Sunday, 12 April 2020

Life in the pandemic III: The ultimate act of self-isolation.

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So much that might once have seemed strange now seems normal. I used to work in an office in a building in the middle of a busy city centr...
Friday, 10 April 2020

Life in the pandemic II: Between hubris and humility

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In the midst of the pandemic that we continue to endure, there have been intriguing, even welcome, moments. Acts of kindness, like folk shop...
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...