Is science the only way to know anything about anything?
Scientism says that science is the source of all our knowledge. Does this make sense or are there other sources for what we can know?
Surprised by Oxford: best book I read in a year
A review of Carolyn Weber's account of finding God at Oxford.
The God Argument by A.C. Grayling – a review
This is a ‘wham-bam, take it or leave it’ book. Prof. Grayling issues terse, often idiosyncratic, definitions without…
Brontes' "Eternal Powers"
The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and the…
War Horse
How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…
The Iron Lady
An old lady in a headscarf is buying a pint of milk in a local shop. She’s surprised by the price of the milk, and disturbed by the…
Sherlock Holmes
A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The colour red suffuses We Need to Talk About Kevin. Red paint is smeared across walls and car window screens, red jam oozes out of…
The Design Inference – a critical review
In this article, Peter S. Williams defends one of the key statements of Intelligent Design theory, namely that specified complexity…