Category: Sanctimoan
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Thought Vomit #39: ft. Evidence
The evidence that evidence is increasingly less important is mounting up. Not only in the legal systems around the world, where the notion of being innocent until proven guilty is being eroded, but more and more in other areas. There are two examples in the news today. First, most of the papers I’ve seen are…
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Thought Vomit #37: ft. Electoral Reform
I found out today that there are more than two available electoral voting systems. I found this out because the news finally decided to talk about electoral reform in terms other than first past the post, or proportional representation. Unfortunately, they decided to frame this debate in a process story about whether Alan Johnson was…
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Thought Vomit #35: ft. State Funded Religious Indoctrination
There are 6,358 faith state primary schools in England, and another 589 secondary ones. As of 2001, these broke down into: 4,716 Church of England schools; 2,108 Roman Catholic ones; 32 Jewish; 4 Muslim; 2 Sikh; 1 Greek Orthodox; and 1 Seventh Day Adventist. That’s one third of the compulsory education system in the hands…
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Thought Vomit #34: ft. Oh Dear God, Really?
I’ll be honest. Until recently I never quite appreciated how non-secularized Britain is. They say prayers in Parliament before business commences; I went to a publicly funded Catholic School who used that money to teach me that eating whilst stood up was some sort of sin; and we have an official religion. So it surprises…
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Thought Vomit #33: ft. The Best Question Time Ever
If you missed this evening’s prime time special of Question Time, let me give you a flavour of how it went down. The extravaganza began as it meant to go on, with an elaborate musical number featuring 646 dancing girls, each representing a Member of Parliament. As the dancers gyrated, the camera swooped by them,…
