David Hume
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
For Hume the bell tolls
Civil debate? A miracle
Slaves to bad history
The battle for academic rigour at the home of the Scottish Enlightenment
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit