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That’s my history

I’ve not been writing much recently. You’ve probably noticed. Or just forgotten this existed. This is a repost from a blog I wrote for the Open Table Network for LGBT+ History Month. My history too… So it’s LGBT+ History Month? But I’m neither L, G, B or T, what’s it got to do with me? […]

La Manada

“History repeats itself. Has to. No one listens.” So said Steve Turner. Sometimes it seems that he is right. This week has seen monumental protests across Spain against the judicial ruling in the case of a young women allegedly gang-raped in 2016. Her aggressors, members of a self-proclaimed group La Manada, the wolf-pack, have been […]

Evidence or attitude?

I managed to catch most of Channel 4’s Sunday night special, ‘Jesus’ Female Disciples: The New Evidence’. I guess I’m not your average Sunday night Channel 4 viewer, but there wasn’t a lot of new evidence for me. In fact, I reckon there’s a whole lot of old evidence that could happily have added to […]

I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!

What’s your own particular phobia? Being trapped in a plastic box with buckets of fire ants and meal-worms crawling all over you? A transparent plastic globe full of spiders fixed round your head? (Could almost be Winston from Orwell’s 1984 with his rat cage.) Swimming with snakes and crocodiles, getting your fingers nipped by crabs, […]

Time to vote…

Democracy is a funny thing. Whilst we might hold it up as an undeniable virtue, what actually constitutes a democracy is still wide open for discussion. According to the Economist’s “Intelligence Unit” 2014 Democracy index, the UK narrowly avoids being lumped with other nearly-rans as a “flawed democracy”. Admittedly, we’re not in the same league […]

A Note To British Politicians

(More food for thought in the run up to next months General Election. This is a reblog of a post by Eddie Arthur of kouya.net – do drop by and have a look at what he writes.) Firstly, you need to realise that I am not stupid and I will not thank you for treating […]

One vote – use it wisely.

After the complexity and incoherence of the recent televised debate featuring the heads of the seven major parties competing at May’s general election, I guess many of the Great British voters are doubly confused. British politics is just not what it used to be. Times have changed and we are no longer faced with the […]

Life after Easter

���With hindsight���… it’s easy to believe in the resurrection. We have been raised on centuries of Christian tradition and all ���know��� that Jesus was raised from the dead. Whilst questioned by our materialistic world, the Easter story is so much part of our Western cultural tradition that there is little that surprises us. But that […]

Extraterrestrial communications confirm biblical numerology

From ancient Jewish Kabbalah to Michael Drosnin’s “The Bible Code”, Biblical numerology has always had its adepts and detractors, often being the subject of much criticism as well as ridicule. However, today the veracity of biblical numerology has finally been confirmed with a remarkable new discovery. Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Department for Interstellar Observational Theology […]

And the Oscar goes to…

It was red carpet time in Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre at the recent Oscar ceremony with Hollywood’s stars vying with one another for the most striking outfits ��� as usual. Birdman emerged as the overall winner ��� no surprise there. And no surprise either for the best actress award ��� Julianne Moore for her role […]