The notion that politics should be divorced from ethics is an extremely silly one. Non-religious people have personal beliefs of right and wrong, and if they are legislators, then of course these leg… (View Post)

I admit, that’s a song I detest, for its vacuity. (View Post)

Heaven is unimaginable. Hell is all too imaginable. It’s why Inferno is the best part of the Divine Comedy. (View Post)

I’d vote Labour if they deported her. (View Post)

Being an intellectual is absolutely no bar to being a purveyor of death on a gigantic scale. Babur was a gifted poet and miniaturist, whose poems now form the basis for many central Asian songs. And,… (View Post)