Until this Sunday, John Cornwell was not someone I had a lot of time for. He is best known for his inaccurate and agenda-driven book, Hitler...

Last night Channel 4 broadcast a show hosted by Rod Liddle that was highly critical of the new atheism. I watched it and thought it was re...

A poster on my yahoo group kindly brought A.C. Grayling's reply to Terry Eagleton's deprecatory review of The God Delusion to my a...

How small is the smallest thing in the universe? How small is a quark? A superstring? Actually, no one knows but the smallest possible le...

Rod Liddle is my favourite journalist. He is a very witty writer who has no truck with political correctness, but also sees himself as a le...

One of the highlights of my visit to Athens last year was to see the Antikythera Mechanism in the Archaeological Museum there. This artifac...

Susan Blackmore, a Dawkinista who has recently popped up in the Guardian with some anti-religious diatribes (among other things), today cla...

In our recent exchange , Charles Freeman suggested that Michael Lapidge's The Anglo Saxon Library showed that the church did not preser...

I have to admit I don't like British Airways. It's largely because they are very bad at handling children. If you want your bambin...

According to popular legend, when Galileo presented his telescope to senior cardinals/Jesuits/Aristotelian philosophers/the Inquisition (del...