May
10
2021
Labour Be Bold
If I were in charge of the Labour Party (unlikely) my policies would be
A second referendum. Not because Brexit was a bad idea, although it probably was, but because the 2016 vote was an outrage on democracy. The public...
Apr
20
2021
I want to argue through PS-Humanitas that we are now facing the greatest challenges humans have ever faced, yet, despite the overwhelming evidence and information that has never been so widely disseminated, most of us are still behaving...
Apr
12
2021
The Enlightenment was and still is a disaster because it irrationally privileges logic and analysis over other faculties of the human mind. The imagination is allowed to wither and into the vacuum all kinds of nasty things surge and...
Apr
08
2021
Chapter 4. Genesis (2): Original Sin
Original sin is, as the name suggests, to do with origins. What are those origins? Science can tell us. We and the chimpanzees split off from a common chimpanzee-like ancestor only six million years...
Mar
24
2021
Sugar in the 18th century, pesticides in the 21st.
We marvel now that people in the eighteenth century could have sat in their coffee houses imbibing sugar in the coffee, complacently unconcerned about the slaves who grew it. It wasn’t...
Mar
19
2021
Original sin is, as the name suggests, to do with origins. What are those origins? Science can tell us. We and the chimpanzees split off from a common chimpanzee-like ancestor only six million years ago. When Jane Goodall first went to Gombe she...
Mar
16
2021
Women have a responsibility too.
Of course, the murder of Sarah Everard is deplorable and terrible beyond what words can describe and it goes without saying that women should not live in fear of sexual harassment on the streets. But...
Mar
13
2021
Why are so many Conservative backbenchers so stupid?
My attention has recently been caught by the attitude of so many Tory backbenchers to two current issues. One is that of when to end the present covid 19 restrictions. The vast...
Feb
17
2021
Chapter 4. Genesis (2): Original Sin
Original sin is, as the name suggests, to do with origins. What are those origins? Science can tell us. We and the chimpanzees split off from a common chimpanzee-like ancestor only six million years ago. When Jane Goodall first went...
Jan
27
2021
The Fall in Genesis 3:1-24
The most striking aspect of the story of the fall of mankind in Genesis is that God proves to be wrong and the serpent right. Eve tells him that God has forbidden herself and Adam...