The BBC is a very different animal from a few years ago. It both lacks intellectual confidence, and tends to over-defer to people it believes are in the opposite cultural space from it, partly as a r… (View Post)

Morning, P.B. Yes, it is complex In some ways, as understandings of ethnicity and faith were rather different then. His mother was from a Greek family in Lydda, and his father could have been any com… (View Post)

If the U.K., like all northwest European countries, didn't take the side of secular democracy against any form of religious fascism, be it Christian, Islamic, Jewish or Buddhist, at some point in the… (View Post)

But there wouldn't be enough committed Christians to secure the country against any other form of religion. I am in some ways more spiritual thsn secularist, but mass secularism is Britain's defence … (View Post)

Those Scots played a big role in early broadcasting, what with Lord Reith, there too. (View Post)