Archive for August, 2008
Brighton Beachdown and the Devils Dykes
Well done to the organisers of this magnificent and memorable first Beachdown festival. I’m already looking forward to next year when I hear there could be more like 15,000 tickets on sale. I may even take a tent next year, or maybe rent one of those £500 chalets.
We’d made a plan to come home every […]Science teacher insists the earth is less than 10,000 years old
Richard Dawkins highlights UK education scandal
Eminent (and eminently sensible) scientist and philosopher Richard Dawkins interviewed a chemistry teacher at a ‘well-respected’ Yorkshire secondary school on TV last night. A teacher who stated - clearly and unashamedly - that he truly believed the earth was less than ten thousand years old.
A creationist, he has the gall to drag his personal religious […]Who’s the daddy, religion or science?
The Nurse marvels at the universe and wonders why people need gods.
Just because she has misbehaved in the past doesn’t mean The Nurse is spiritually bereft. Her feelings still soar at the sight of a glorious sunset, even though she can only glimpse a slim slice of sky between the grim buildings, through the thick bars of her cell. And […]Stop China-bashing and enjoy the Olympics
The Nurse admires China and wonders at their tolerance of Western interference
The global economy is - inevitably - moving us towards a global morality. And the Western world appears to have stormed the moral high ground.
Snug in her cell watching the Olympics, The Nurse hopes the event will send a great big wave of worldwide goodwill in China’s direction. She’s sick and tired of […]Listed buildings eco-scandal: English Heritage ‘a disgrace’
