Oct
30
2015
Anything if given long enough will, it seems, turn into the opposite of itself. Monks end up running public schools. The Labour Party turns into a reserve team for the Tories. Communist officials lose no time in forming themselves...
Oct
29
2015
Is it really credible that within the space of four million or at most six million years, the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms, a creature as different as ourselves from the proto-chimpanzee that was the ancestor of...
Oct
28
2015
As humanity has done from time immemorial – for this is why they have entered deep caves and erected so many cromlechs, megaliths, temples, churches and cathedrals to celebrate it - I hear divine voices in wild geese crying...
Oct
27
2015
How many children a year are abused by paedophiles? One in half a million? One in a quarter of a million? One in a hundred thousand? Certainly a problem and children need to be protected from paedophiles but statistically...
Oct
26
2015
It is in the nature of humankind to be kindly, as the word implies. I drove my car the other day - how stupid can an old git get? - through a fence almost into a river. The neighbours...
Oct
23
2015
Two weeks ago climate scientists published a report saying that they had examined the proposals put forward by 147 governments ahead of the summit in Paris in December, and even if the most far-reaching ideas are adopted - which...
Oct
21
2015
Is science the mythical narrative of western capitalism? Well yes and no. It is not in the sense that science discovers facts about nature and they are true whether the reigning economic system is capitalism or primitive barter or...
Oct
20
2015
Am I right in detecting a complacent swagger in the gait of the Tory cabinet ministers as they walk into No 10? They should be crawling along on their knees beating their breasts. The report released by the Grantham...
Oct
20
2015
Thursday this week is the feast day of John Paul II. In many ways he was a great man. I admire his stand against war. If only those pious Christians Bush and Blair had listened to him. But I...
Oct
16
2015
The loving voice I hear in rain pattering on the roof and waves breaking on the shore and rivers running over stones is that of our universal mother.