A Thinking Man

I think I am living in the UK in the twenty first century. I think I am. Sometimes things just seem so absurd that I question my reality. Some things you just couldn’t make up.
Just bear with me. Suppose there were laws about pigs - laws set up to protect the rights of pigs [...]

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I have just set up a new Facebook Group to register support for the separation of Church and State in the UK.  The group’s position is as follows:
People are free to believe whatever they want (however strange).
The state should no longer be involved in formally supporting any particular religion.
Religious people should not have access to [...]

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There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution.  The bar may finally be lifted.  Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]

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It’s shocking to think that even the ‘respectable’ broadsheet newspapers can tell a blatant lie.

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Given that to some people it is a bizarre, outdated, isolated, impotent, expensive, religiously and sexually prejudiced institution, the question remains, why does it survive in the early twenty-first century? 

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I read in the UK Daily Mail yesterday (ok, it was a mistake - I wouldn’t normally read such a right-wing paper, but it was sitting there on the table looking lost and I was bored, so I picked it up) that the great British public are allegedly up in arms about two really significant [...]

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In the early part of the sixteenth century, a man called Felix Manz was executed in Switzerland. He was a sincere Christian, and his only crime was that he held different views about baptism from those held by the sincere Christians in the local ruling authority. They chose drowning as a method of execution.
Aha, you [...]

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