Once in a thousand years?
Until 2007, Dr David King was the Government's adviser on climate change. Interviewed on Newsnight last night, he was asked about the statement that the floods in Cumbria were the result of rainfall that only happens once in a thousand years. Dr King said that may have been true in the past, but in the f

How dare we? It's not difficult
Criticisms of the "Don't Label Us" campaign from religious commentators are predictably ridiculous. One wrote "These people are immensely stupid, and arrogant. To suggest that one does cultural violence to one

Maybe Gordon can't spell but Mrs Janes has no manners
I've emailed the BBC about Mrs Janes and that letter from the PM:Mrs Janes may be understandably very upset about the loss of her son but sharing Gordon's letter with the nation is sheer bad manners. Would she criticise anyone else who's written to her, or is it just because it's the PM? From years of experience as someone who has to deal with bereaved people and use their contributions in humanist funeral ceremonies, I can tell her that a significant proportion of the adult population, includi

They've let another blithering idiot into the House of Lords
That retirement home for the terminally bewildered, the House of Lords, has another deluded soul on its benches.Lord Sachs, the chief rabbi, says Europe's facing a population crisis because of attacks on religion by "secular writers". If contraception was that easy, th

Result! ME is recategorised on the NHS Choices website
When the NHS Choices website posted the Independent's story about researchers finding a “strong link” with a retrovirus called XMRV, I was dismayed to see that it was listed in the menu under the "me