Is your MP aware of the potential illegality of Brexit?
Feel free to use the following as a template for writing to your MP if you are concerned about Brexit; a convenient online facility is available here. ———————————————————————– Dear [MP], […]
Category Archives: Free expression
Vote Remain… in protest at the EU referendum
I’ve long thought that putting such a choice to a referendum is not the way. That’s not to claim any foresighted sagacity on my part. It’s just that I’m a […]
Scientists aren’t gods – quite the opposite: they’re fallible and accountable
I don’t know whether ‘Sir’ Simon Jenkins has acquired the clout to by-pass sub-editors and supply the (sub-)headlines to his own articles. If he has, then he palpably lacks the […]
Are nonsense ‘cures’ for cancer a ‘soft target’?
I confess to wondering whether Edzard Ernst’s recent increased activity at The Spectator website has arisen due to the latter’s cynical recognition (following the lengthy reaction to Tarek Arab’s naïve, […]
(More) Solace for Salman?
Reworked and expanded version of a previous post has (following submission mid-March) surfaced in the latest issue of Leicester Secularist, the ‘monthly’ journal of the Leicester Secular Society. ………………………. Solace for Salman? I’ve often […]
Solace for Salman?
Have you ever read Salman Rushdie’s vibrant, florid, atmospheric novel, The Satanic Verses? I’ve often wondered about the fatwā, pronounced five months after its publication in 1988, and the ensuing effect on its author’s life […]
QUACKSONEBOWIE
“How many people lie instead of talking tall” (David Bowie, ‘Blackstar’) So, Bowie is dead. And all and sundry have been airing their favourite anecdotal bits and eulogistic pieces all over […]
A homeopath talks shite
What with time engaged in circumstantial re-arrangement and embarking on a period of semi-nomadism, I’ve written little of late. I have, however, still been prodding and irking my oft-naïve sensibility […]
Lee Turnpenny 