Category: News
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Back Up
It’s been a good sojourn away from blogging, but having been busy writing a new book for a while, I’ve decided it’s time to get back online. Welcome back if you’ve followed either of my old blogs – pretty much everything has been archived here. If you did link here, it’d be great if you…
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Goodbye, for now | New Book
I think the time is right to drop the curtain on ‘Signs of Emergence’ / ‘The Complex Christ’ / ‘Der Jesus Faktor’ and move on. The idea of this blog has been to give some space to extend the ideas presented in that book, and, personally, I feel that’s been successful. But you shouldn’t keep…
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UK Wants Database of Every Phonecall, Email and Page View | Stop This Madness!!
Shocking news today: the UK government is proposing to create a database of every phonecall made and email message sent. (Update – original article in The Times here.) Yes, you did read that right: that would mean the government would effectively be tapping every phone call and intercepting every email and monitor every page view.…
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Don’t Piss About London: Vote Ken Or The Monkey Gets It.
London goes to the polls this week. While the rest of the country has local council elections, London votes for its Mayor. It’s the biggest directly-elected budget-holding post in the UK: £13 billion annually to spend, employing 103,000 people and a £39billion transport investment programme over the next 10 years.. And there are some massively…
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Clinton Defaults to Conflict: This is Washington, not Hollywood
"One of the things that makes Mrs Clinton so psychologically fascinating is her tendency to portray everthing in terms of conflict and confrontation. And one of the characteristics that makes her so interesting politically is that she is a much better candidate when things are going badly than when they are going well." From BBC…
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Rollins’ New Book Gets Pulped. Ouch.
Poor old Pete – seems like some Fundie at the printers for his new book has taken exception to the title of his new book ‘The Fidelity of Betrayal‘, done some reworking, and sent it out to stores as ‘The Betrayal of Fidelity.’ Ouch. That’s gotta hurt sales. Both copies have been pulped.