When I was young, Yellow Pages was ubiquitous. Businesses paid a modest fee to appear in the directory (or a less modest one if they wanted ...

Tom Holland wrote and presented Islam: The Untold Story for Channel 4.  The show follows on from his book In the Shadow of the Sword on t...

England has had a cool wet summer. The relevance of this in the debate on global warming is pretty close to nil. Likewise, the cold winters...

With the Euro-crisis dragging on without any sign of resolution, even the most excitable journalists are beginning to get a bit fed up with ...

In the comments to  a recent post , Tim argued that agnosticism should be defined according to its provenance in  T.H. Huxley . By agnostici...

This is so cool. The Higgs-Boson particle has been discovered . In physics terms, evidence for a new particle requires a “3-sigma” measure...

Last night I left a few comments on another blog that reported the news that a German court had declared it illegal to circumcise children u...

A cynic might conclude that - far from being one of humanity's greatest achievements - the Internet is in fact a seething mass of ban...

O ne year on from 'review-gate' another row involving Orlando Figes is brewing and this time it's his Stalin-era book 'T...

We start our journey here where Bill Vallicella, aka Maverick Philosopher , characterizes seven possible responses to Leibniz 's questi...