The Dangers of Religious Liberty to a Secular Society |
This week's case of a British registrar hailing a victory for "religious liberty" by winning a court ruling that judged her employees "harassed" her after she refused to conduct civil partnerships bec...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:53:00 GMT |
In defence of the British hedgerow |
If you take a long distance train journey in Britain then you will inevitably pass through the countryside that separates the towns and cities. Some is uncultivated grassland,...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:20:00 GMT |
Time? |
I was in Borders browsing the fiction section today when an American man, seated in one of the comfy leather seats, briefly broke off from his intense involvement in what must have been an engrossing ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:54:00 GMT |
Is God Listening? |
A programme on the television features children saying ridiculous things. (This is in itself a particularly callous form of adult entertainment, but anyway...) One child, a little black girl, obviousl...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:40:00 GMT |
Baby on Board! |
If I could consign anything to the history books for all time, thesewretched plastic tags stuck to the rear windows of cars would come prettyhigh on the list. Of all the fads of the late-twentieth, ea...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:19:00 GMT |
Do I smell of plant food? |
I've taken to using the small water jug for the iron to water the plants. Having invested in a small bottle of baby bio (one of those things you buy because you're persuaded it's indispen...
Posted by on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:15:00 GMT |
Do I have the nation behind me? |
Any Dream Will Do. God almighty, what a shower. A group of young guys dressed like Colin Baker singing their hearts out to face the public vote. A Scot with a ludicrously small chin takes his turn, an...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:40:00 GMT |
Personality test. The results... |
Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||| 20% Stability || 10% Orderliness |||||||||||| 43% Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 70% Interdependence |||| 16% Intellectual ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:13:00 GMT |
I Overtook a Woman Jogging... |
...whilst walking home today.
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:55:00 GMT |
A ride in a police car and the smell of cheap mince beef. |
My first ever year at school was not a happy one. I was a painfully shy four year-old and St Anne's, the old-fashioned Catholic primary school I was sent to in Ormskirk, had n...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:57:00 GMT |
