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Posted in Education, Existential, Government, Morality, Religion on May 25th, 2008
What would you do with £1.5 million?
I suppose if I were given it to spend just on myself and not feel bound to give it away, I could quite happily think of things. In order of priority - a new phone with all the latest gizmos (yes, I really am that shallow), a visit [...]
Posted in Education, Faith, Human Rights, Religion on May 16th, 2008
In America, apparently, many people say they want it but can’t get it, and in the UK many don’t want it, but can’t get rid of it - god in school, that is.
As a school pupil I had to endure it every day - the compulsory hymn and routine prayers. Just imagine it, 600 [...]
Posted in Education, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
Perhaps it’s my age. I find myself getting very angry at things these days. Years ago I would have rebuked myself for that and told myself that anger was wrong. Now I just see it as a healthy emotion in response to injustice and threat.
Although I first read about this story several [...]
Posted in Education, Existential, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Philosophy, Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2008
I am grateful to Prospect for enlightening me. (And by the way, this is written ‘tongue in cheek’ so don’t flame me with angry comments. It’s Friday morning, and I’ve wound down already!) Apparently there is a big difference between maths undergraduates, and those studying philosophy. I always suspected that was [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Human Rights, Religion on Feb 18th, 2008
There has been mild to mad outrage in the UK press over the past couple of days about the primary school pupil from London whose parents wanted him to go to Stonehenge. Nothing outrageous about that, you might think. However, it was during term time, so there is at least a prima facie [...]
Posted in Censorship, Education, Isolation, Religion, Science, Technology on Feb 8th, 2008
There have been repeated threats in the US to limit the teaching of evolution in state schools. Three leading Florida state legislators are preparing to challenge new state science education standards that will make the teaching of evolution compulsory for the first time in Florida’s history.
Posted in Education, Government, Religion on Jan 28th, 2008
Senior clerics within the Church of England are protesting that trainee priests will be brought to their knees because of UK government plans to reform university funding and raise tuition fees for second degrees.
Three quarters of the 1,500 students training to become Church of England clergy at any one time are taking second university [...]
Posted in Education, Law, Relationships, Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
Would you do it today? I suspect you probably wouldn’t.
Around 25 years ago I left a small, sleepy village in mid-Norfolk, UK, just after midnight, with 45 young teenagers and two other colleagues, and headed for Gatwick airport. We tried to sleep on the journey, and failed miserably. At some point in [...]
Posted in Education, Existential, Faith, Internet, Other Blogs, Psychology, Religion, Science, Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008
Did you know that:
George Bush planned the September 11 attacks,
MMR injection triggers autism in children,
the ancient Greeks stole their ideas from Africa,
Creation Science disproves evolution,
homeopathy can defeat the AIDS virus,
Jesus and Mary Magdalene sired a dynasty of Merovingian kings,
MI5 killed Diana, Princess of Wales?
If you did know any of these things, you have been a [...]
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