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Well, he did make the trains run on time

  Well, they say of Mussolini, at least he made the trains run on time. Actually, that’s disputed, but that’s by-the-by.  While watching the telly, I was struck by a remark of Scotland’s First...

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What’s Wrong With Believing In Nothing?

I was having a friendly discussion/argument the other day:  it had something to do with my militant, Dawkins-esque atheism, and my disparagement of some sorts of religious ritual.  “At least I believe...

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Lady Thatcher is Dead – and some people celebrate

Margaret Thatcher has died.  A few people have declared that this is grounds for celebration.  ‘A great day’, they have announced.  Pop open the champagne. Well, we know that Lady Thatcher was the most...

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A WHITE MAN’S COURT

Is it a White Man’s Court?  I went to a talk recently in which the International Criminal Court, the ICC, was accused of racial bias.  The evidence seems pretty damning.  Virtually no non-African has...

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Are You A Fox or A Hedgehog?

by David Edmonds Follow David on twitter @DavidEdmonds100 Are you a Fox or a Hedgehog?  In practical ethics, far better to be a hedgehog. Isaiah Berlin drew a famous distinction when discussing great...

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I’m Too Unsexy For My Shirt

Follow David on Twitter @David Edmonds100 Thinking only of your career prospects now, is it better to be sexy or unsexy?  This person was said to be too sexy and lost her job.   But at Abercrombie...

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Can Facts Be Racist?

Here is the sequence of events.  1. Richard Dawkins tweets that all the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College Cambridge.  2. Cue a twitter onslaught – accusing Professor Dawkins...

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Burma, Myanmar and the Myth of Objectivity

by David Edmonds – twitter @DavidEdmonds100 Since my last blog post, there has been a decision within the BBC “to start to move” to calling ‘Burma, ‘Myanmar’. Burma has always been an interest of mine...

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Shopping on Drugs

Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/DavidEdmonds100. I noticed recently that I have an entirely irrational shopping habit.  I wanted to buy a packet of crisps, but when I went to pick up my...

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Uses and Abuses of the Holocaust

Follow Dave on twitter https://twitter.com/DavidEdmonds100  At my advanced age, I can perhaps be forgiven for getting irritated by many things in life.  But few exasperate me more than an argument or...

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