Posts from ‘May, 2007’

I have just picked up on an interesting article from The Guardian which suggests that the well publicised ‘new atheist’ movement (represented by the Dawkins/Dennett type of school) is essentially motivated by a political agenda – and in particular fear of radical Islam and ‘fundamentalist’ America. Bunting rightly recognises that in their “vituperative polemic” the new [...]

We went to see Spiderman 3 yesterday.  A good film, if a little longer than would have been ideal!  For a more in-depth discussion, here is one of a number of reviews and comments at Hollywood Jesus. I will limit myself to a few observations. As with the almost painfully blatant ‘Christian allusions’ in last year’s [...]

A news article this morning caught my eye.  The Fire Brigade Union are having an argument about the representation of minority groups on their executive committee. The debate centres on whether having black, gay and women representatives on the committee gives those ‘interest groups’ greater power than corresponds to their proportion of the total membership. [...]