Richard Dawkins – Boadicea's Chariot

Richard Dawkins says something sensible for a change.

For the first time in a long while I find myself agreeing with Richard Dawkins.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416953/Richard-Dawkins-embroiled-Twitter-row-controversial-comments.html

The Jeans of Slave Traders

Some of you may remember a post I wrote a couple of years ago about my disillusionment with Richard Dawkins. A copy of that post is here. Yesterday I was reading one of our local papers and I came across this rather dodgy article here, which took me to the original, but equally dodgy article in the Daily Telegraph here. Continue reading “The Jeans of Slave Traders”

The Greatest Show on Earth?

Some weeks ago I booked three tickets to see /hear Richard Dawkins at the Woodstock Literary Festival, not knowing the day would be complicated by illness. That’s the way things are, I guess at the start of a new term: exposure to new bugs after weeks of holiday. Continue reading “The Greatest Show on Earth?”