This is a long time favourite article of mine, I seem to find it just as funny as the year before. It’s origins on the internet are unknown, even the urban legend website Snopes.com can only trace it back as far as the now defunct magazine SPY in 1990, which is the best source I …
On deriving morality from religion Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. On evangelism I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. On …
Yesterday I woke up to the news that the author and public orator Christopher Hitchens had died in his hospital bed in Houston, Texas. He died of pneumonia as a complication of oesophageal cancer. He was just 62. Hitchens had a reputation for heavy drinking and being an ardent smoker, living a self described hedonistic lifestyle. He was a cancer patient …
A recent trip to Krakow provided the opportunity to visit a place I’ve wanted to go for a number of years – Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over the last few years I’ve had the opportunity to visit quite a few so called sites of dark tourism. They all follow roughly the same trend, and I’ve not seen any …
