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 trumpe… (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 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)