Christopher Hitchins might be your hero, but actually you are revealing yourself as being even more reactionary than his bovine brother, Peter. Also Hitchins, C would have engaged with the argument, … (View Post)

A wish is not a claim upon reality. In fact the dunderheaded Tories have failed to put forward any programme that could be dignified with the name of "Philosophy". They spout random populis… (View Post)

As the frilly fascists on the Tory right come out for Donald Trump, I can not help wondering what happened to the actual Conservatives in the Tory Party. The overwhelming majority of people in the UK… (View Post)

Even if very few of us are Christians, so much of the language and images we use have their roots in the Bible. Yet that is yet another thing that has been largely excluded from the curriculum in the… (View Post)

I think what we all implicitly recognise is that the quality of public sector work is, to say the least, pretty variable. In Scotland we have over 600,000 public sector employees and I may say that i… (View Post)