Cards on the table - I thought the BBC's 'Frozen Planet' was one of the best programmes of the year. However Mental Mel (or Melanie Phillips to her acolytes), has launched an condemnation on the...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418 I've never agreed with everything Hitchens said/wrote, but love or hate him, it's surely pretty hard to deny his formidable intellect and remarkable eloquence...
An American christian organisation 'thanked god' for the death of Christopher Hitchens. A fine example of 'christian values' Still no one could accuse them of hypocrisy.
Well,For 116 years it graced the halls of the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff—the fossilised skeleton of a 200m[illion]-year-old predator that once cruised the Jurassic seas,” says...
A New Nativity. When all those long, long years ago a child came down to earth below, To save the likes of you and me from evil, harm and misery, Do you suppose that even then, there were some...
Thought of the Moment
It is the law of human life, as certain as gravity; to live fully, we must learn to use things and love people... not love things and use people. -Maria Montessori...
Last night I dreamt that Britain was being invaded by Germany. Hundreds of planes, dropping military tanks, filled the darkened, foreboding, sky. In the unlikely event that this should ever occur,...
People quizzed who said a cause was 'important' or 'very important' Poverty - 86% Policing - 85% Government policy - 80% Unemployment - 79% Shooting of Mark Duggan - 75% (pictured above) Social media...
As the global temperature has remained steady for the past 10 consecutive years can we assume the panic is over? Or is it that Britains efforts (only 2% of the world's emitters) have succeeded in...
http://www.telegraph....n-school-leavers.html Credit due to Morrison's for sending these youngsters back for "remedial pre-job training" before they start work, but who is to blame for this...
There was some idiot on TV the other day saying extra public sector workers means more people paying taxes. When will these people get it into their thick heads, it's the same money paid by the state...
The report by black and ethnic minority women's organisation Imkaan found that in the city 3,500 baby girls are born every year to mothers who have suffered female genital mutilation, and therefore...
Having read elsewhere that Tinkerbelle has successfully had her ears candled and having found out what it entails my first thought was 'you couldn't make it up'. But we can make it up, so come on...
I have waffled on this site for many years but don’t bother any more. It seems that everything has been said many times: the reasons why religious belief is irrational; the lack of historical...
I've been asked by a Christian ABer if I spent last night watching the Omen trilogy. Not very nice - but the question struck me as rather strange. I can't imagine why such a peculiar thought would...