Honours have always been sold
Labour comes clean

Linking Arms With the Far Right
Liberty, Liberal Democrats and the BMI

Race and faith: a new agenda

On the triumph of intolerance
How not to get involved in a pogrom

Just the power to charm
Modernity and Blairism

Suggestion Box
What should I throw at John Reid today?

Too idle to read the Bible? It’s in a blog

There is a body of opinion – let’s call it the “consensus” – that only Chelsea or Manchester United can win the Premiership in 2007. Within that consensus, of course, there are shades: from “catastrophic” that Man Utd should win, to merely very, very bad that Chelsea do. Surely no good citizen can disagree. Well, they can. Because we have a group loosely called the “Redblue-deniers”. Some think there’s only a chance, a small one not worth worrying too much about, that Chelsea or Man Utd will prevail; and that anyway, the emotional pain of that eventuality could be offset by laying a reverse forecast on the title. Most, though, seem convinced it will be Reading’s year.

Now, let’s take my imaginary great-aunt. She knows nothing at all about football. Read More

Richard Dawkins
Where rudeness meets religion

Relativities: local and global
When income differentials matter, and when they don’t