I’ll confess that one of my guilty pleasures when reading a newspaper are bad film reviews. I suspect that film reviewers enjoy writing them almost as much as finding the glowing verbiage for a good review of a small budget film they’ve ‘discovered’, and want to impress on the world. The vernacular and imagery is [...]
How should we study religion?: Whilst I’ve not yet had a chance to more than skim it, the summary from Prospect Magazine sounds very interesting. “Daniel Dennett is one of the world’s foremost philosophers of mind. In his new book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Dennett turns his attention to religion, calling for [...]
Today’s Guardian has an excellent series of interviews with the few remaining survivors of the first world war. One of the most notable is also close to home, for Harry Patch lives in the residential care home in Wells, Somerset that my mother now runs. I spoke to her to say I’d read the interview, and [...]
