The Nicodemist

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s senior Catholic cleric has been in the spotlight over a letter he wrote to the Sunday Telegraph criticising the Government’s plans to legalise same-sex marriage. In it he compares the prospect of gay marriage to slavery. Here’s O’Brien: Imagine for a moment that the

It had been billed as the main event, bigger even than the all British bout of Hayes vs Chisora. I am talking, of course, of the battle of the Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Commons last Tuesday. There was a sense of eager anticipation as the opponents stood at opposing sides [...]

Article first published as Mormonism’s Faustian Pact on Blogcritics. The Devil is a good capitalist. Well, that’s the way the story goes anyhow. Ever open to increasing his market penetration in the world the Lord of Darkness was scouting for a low-cost investment with good future earnings potential

Can a Socialist be a Christian? That is the question asked by E Belfort Bax in his 1884 essay Unscientific Socialism. I confess I have not read a great deal of work on the subject so what you will not find here is a reasoned conclusion based on exhaustive research but is, instead, a brief [...]

Abu Quatada has been in the news a lot recently, most recently because it looks as though he will be freed from the indefinite immigration detention that had been imposed upon him, following a successful application for bail. The relevant judgement from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission is

Mehdi Hasan, Summer of Unrest: The Debt Delusion, Random, (2011). Kindle ebook. The Debt Delusion is a short read, but it is a compelling one. Hasan’s aim is less to advance an economic argument than to question the perceived inevitability of the present Conservative/Lib Dem government’s deficit red