The Stroppy Rabbit

 I have again written to my MP, who is a member of the Canada Israel Parliamentary Group. This is not the first time that I have written to ...

Letter to my MP: Israeli bombardmen t of Palestine I am very disturbed by recent events in Gaza, including the bombing of a hospital...

So I did the Belief-O-Matic again... For goodness' sake, I ticked polytheist. This can't be right. ...

My own view is that the Easter story is one of many stories of dying and resurrecting deities. In these stories, the hero dies, descends to ...

I am currently reading the Emberverse series by S M Stirling , in which electronics, guns, the internal combustion engine, and gunpowder all...

I have no words apart from "A la lanterne!" for this. Apparently Michael Gove has had a go at historians and TV for the "Blac...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." ~ Inigo Montoya  It has come to my attention that ...

People often ask, why are there so few famous women writers, artists, scientists, and intellectuals? They seem to be forgetting that, in p...

William Adam was born in 1796 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, and began his ministry as a Baptist missionary in India. Whilst in India, he...

There was an excellent article in The Guardian yesterday on obesity by Rae Earl . » Obesity epidemic: as a lifelong comfort eater, I unde...

I had an interesting conversation the other day. I got chatting to a woman in a shop, and the conversation ranged over a number of topics, u...

The trans* community are not the only ones to point out that "transsexual" is not a noun, it's an adjective. There are many o...