Feb
23
2015
Whenever I am feeling a bit low I cheer myself up by remembering Dawkins saying somewhere once - or perhaps I imagined it, for life is only so full of comic incidents in so far as we imagine incongruous...
Feb
20
2015
Is this a most irreverent thought, but I can't help thinking the Catholic Church will never convert mankind until it gets out of the Vatican. St Peter's was built on the sale of salvation and is a monument to...
Feb
19
2015
For a long time scientists have been telling us that so long as we kept average rise in global temperature below 2C, which might happen if carbon in the atmosphere rose to 450 ppm, then there would be little...
Feb
18
2015
No anger can be too great no disappointment too keen no contempt too scalding for the Catholic Church's betrayal of its founder's teaching (burning people alive, the Inquisition, slavery, selling salvation for money, Galileo, Pinochet, to name but a...
Feb
17
2015
'Only kings wear purple and live in palaces' says the Gospel. So what do the bishops do? Wear purple and live in palaces. What comedy. And what tragedy.
Feb
15
2015
If it was ever possible to say that the scientists are divided on climate it isn't now. A survey in Skeptical Scientist in 2013 found 97% of scientists think global warming is man-made and a very dangerous threat to...
Feb
11
2015
Shocked by TV Inside Parliament. A kind of dotty minor public school. The sight of honourable members talking gibberish in order to stop a bill being sensibly debated drives you to despair. Meanwhile if the scientists are right the...
Feb
09
2015
To London to stay in Shaftesbury Avenue. Who wouldn't love the rushing and the roar? Most fortunate in that ENO Meistersinger was one of their greatest every productions. How I love this piece. All those stuffy old burghers, the...
Feb
06
2015
If somebody destroyed the Mona Lisa the outpouring of grief and rage would be uncontainable. Yet people will destroy the very greatest of all nature’s marvels, the human embryo, without demur, saying nobody wants to do it but it’s...
Feb
05
2015
- Oh yes you did - Oh no I didn’t - Oh yes you did - Oh no I didn’t - Last week, Mr Speaker, I heard the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite say two and two make five...