I wasn’t feeling well over the weekend, and spent a lot of time in front of the TV, trying to stave off a cold. Two programmes caught my attention for the same reason: their depiction of the workplace. NCIS is an american show about a Naval Criminal Intelligence unit solving crimes involving sailors. It isn’t [...]
The current furore over the niqab is an interesting test for the methodology suggested in the last post. Let’s start with the facts. There are a significant number of British muslims, some of whom live in communities in our major cities. Relations between these communities and their neighbours are not without issues, with some misunderstanding [...]
Sometimes you find something that, in context, might not seem too strange, but when you step back and think about it, is genuinely odd. (Yes, that really is a ten foot copper eggcup in a late medieval church, by the way.) We are so used to the mixture of news and comment that passes for [...]
