Setting Fire to Scarecrows

I first published this in 2013 but although an oldie it's a goodie Atheists like setting fire to religious scarecrows they have themselves constructed. Marooned forlornly in their fields, with odd bits of straw sticking out at absurd angles, and...

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The comic of Europe

The rest of Europe is killing itself with laughter.  We sign a deal for nuclear power that ties us all in to paying twice the current price for electricity when the cost of renewables is falling so fast the...

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How can we do it?

Bees fly by the light of the sun.  A bee discovering a source of nectar is able to work out the angle between where the nectar is, the sun and the hive.  She flies back to the hive and...

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Corbyn and the Bomb

Corbyn has done remarkably well in this election campaign.  He comes across as honest, determined, resilient, even charismatic.  But one issue he has not handled well.  When he is asked whether he would ever launch a nuclear weapon, even...

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Might confeve Corbyn

You have to admit that even if he doesn’t win Corbyn’s advance from minus ground zero at the beginning of the campaign to getting within poll touching distance of the Tories is a formidable political achievement.    Whereas Increasingly T.May...

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