Tuesday, July 7, 2009

State funding and the Church of England: the truth

July 7, 2009

I’ve pulled this topic out of the comments on this post. It seems to me that there’s a mix of confusion and misrepresentation on this subject by people who ought to know better. At a popular level it’s even worse. I remember once explaining our expectations of preparation for baptism to an angry grandmother. Her [...]

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Harry Potter & swine flu: media madness and mundane reality

July 7, 2009

The media seem unable to give up their obsession with swine flu, and the idea that this is somehow a constant diaster about to happen, despite copious evidence now that so-called swine flu is actually a mild form of summer flu, whose only noteworthy character is that it seems to have begun in a crossover [...]

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