Random Views

The head of the Catholic Church visits a country which has a majority of Buddhists, representatives of a religion that is a byword for peace...

It’s become a bit of a recurring refrain these days: you have to bow to the will of the people. And you have to learn to listen to them. I...

It’s interesting to reflect that George Dubya Bush, who has to be in the running for dumbest US president ever – a position only likely to b...

Curious times we live in. We’re rightly shocked and sickened by the appalling behaviour of ISIS. It has released yet another video of a gr...

Some enthusiasm may be in order, as the world adopts the Paris Agreement on global warming. It won’t go far enough, or be binding enough, bu...

I believe it because it is absurd. Credo quia absurdum . Not many people of faith would accept that as summing up their approach. But it s...

If a group declares war on us, we have every right to take military action against it. Only a convinced pacifist could think otherwise and...

It’s fascinating to watch all the noise that’s been generated over whether or not Britain should take part in air strikes against ISIS in Sy...

No words in response to the Friday the thirteenth attacks in Paris have struck me as much as the message “je suis en terrasse” – I’m on a [c...

The atmosphere today is febrile with the fear of terrorism.  Not without reason. If the attacks on Paris prove anything, they prove that t...

There’s no simpler solution to complex politics than war. That’s because all war requires is the willingness to spend a lot of money, sacr...

Yesterday morning, 13 November, the British media were dominated by one story: the probable killing by a US drone strike in Syria of “Jihadi...