Nature is not a thing made by God but God’s body

All the lovely  hings of nature are not objects manufactured by God as Paley thought but God’s body, as inseparable from h(i)r as a person is inseparable from their body.  The body is not a thing we have but...

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Fixing the roof while the sun shines

The crash of 2008 was indeed caused by the banks but it was an expression of a much deeper malaise, an economy which is not founded on money as a veil, as Adam Smith called it, of which the...

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Not goblins walking over the earth but celebrating giants

To Albert Hall for Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Fifth, conducted by a slip of a girl,  Mirga with the unpronounceable Lithuanian name:  a most sublime noise, transporting, enthralling, not goblins walking over the earth as in Howards End but...

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Darwin and Genesis

DARWIN AND GENESIS   In writing this article I have two intertwining tragedies in my mind.   One is Darwin’s misinterpretation of his own great discovery.   His realization that all life emanates from a single source would better have led him to...

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Hundreds of millions

This is from a report in The Observer by Robin McKie in March 2o14,  the date of the last IPCC report.  Hundreds of millions of refugees is unthinkable.  We can't even deal with the hundred thousand coming now.  How...

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How can we defeat terrorism?

How can we beat terrorism?  Presently, as the recent spate of incidents suggests, we are not winning the battle.  We need to try something different.  If you wish to defeat your enemy, and still more if you wish to...

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We’re being priced out of our own country.

"Millennials spend three times more of income on housing than grandparents" (report in today's Guardian). The Government allows foreign billionaires to compete for posh houses in Kensington and Chelsea. The billionaires don't care how high the prices go because...

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Too much supply, too little demand

Capitalism   There is a long list of those who have prophesied the imminent demise of capitalism, only to be discomforted and dismayed by the resilience of this hugely energetic and zestful animal.  Marx was only the first in the field. ...

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