Thursday, 29 April 2010

The usefulness of false ideas

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Listening to a programme on neuro-science recently (OK, I admit it: it was another archived edition of the BBC In Our Time programme which ...
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Sunday, 25 April 2010

Michael Jackson and the intelligent use of force

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The other day I found myself thinking about Michael Jackson, as one does. Not the late, lamented, serially two-toned singer and dancer. No...
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Yesterday I listened to one of tomorrow's leaders

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It’s wonderful the way people using mobile phones on crowded trains seem to suffer from the delusion that they are enveloped in some kind of...
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Monday, 19 April 2010

What did we do to upset Iceland?

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What is it with Iceland? It has a total population which anywhere else would just about make a reasonable city. It’s located in the North...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Just what is a Christian without love?

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What with all the soul-searching about paedophile priests and the role of the Pope, I find myself returning to the question of just what Chr...
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Saturday, 10 April 2010

Zen and the Art of Enjoying Spring

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It took me a while to work out what was odd about the moment I drove up to my house yesterday, Friday, evening at around 7:30. Then I sudden...
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Monday, 5 April 2010

The St Peter Plot: has the Vatican been infiltrated?

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There is a classic response to a question to which the answer is obviously ‘yes’, which is to question the Catholicism of the Pope. For in...
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