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 certain types o… (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' projections peg as making th… (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 time a… (View Post)
Isn't it just simple political caution and choreography? You don't snap their hand off because it might have strings that are more awkward politically that could blow up in your face and you may have… (View Post)