Yep - that was the problem, wasn't it? Not that it was a bad idea per se, but that it was something for a junior minister to throw out as a nice idea in an interview, not something for a PM to t… (View Post)

You'd say it's less a religion, more a symptom of a deeper belief - namely that reality can be reshaped rather than just described if you theorise hard and well enough. An endpoint of certa… (View Post)

I always found Dawkins a bit odd as a polemicist as he often asserted rather than reasoned. He was a far less convincing advocate for The New Atheism than Christopher Hitchens - who acknowledged valu… (View Post)

Rwanda being worse than useless though as it's taken up an vast amount of time, taxpayers' money and effort on a scheme that even the most optimistic, 'all runs smoothly' projecti… (View Post)

Off topic - I do hope Football League and Non-League teams do announce an FA Cup boycott next season. More than the issue at hand, the scrapping of replays, it's the principle of the thing and t… (View Post)