The ironies underlying today’s debate on the Terrorism Bill just seem to be multiplying: The current situation in France; A Prime Minster avowing defence of civil liberties while warmly embracing the President of China; Ministers with poppies on their lapels po-facedly claiming that the country has never faced a greater threat. Add to that this… Continue reading Irony upon irony
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Fundamentalism
I’ve been reading a spate of articles recently concerned with fundamentalism. Antony Barnett and Isobel Hilton have kickstarted a discussion on democracy on openDemocracy, while Bernard Crick wrote a salutory piece in The Guardian on the need for humanists to find common cause with religious people in the face of fanaticism. Also in the Guardian,… Continue reading Fundamentalism
Where’s my Boing spray?
I was wondering when someone was going to mention smokatoriums.