Not A Scholar

The second group treats Doctor Who as a kind of private religion: a Proustian umbilical connection to a collective past. You remember that...

There is a very old joke which says that if you ask three different Christians a sensible question about their faith, you will receive four...

The idea that Peter Jackson could direct an episode of Doctor Who is obviously ridiculous. The Hobbit is a small scale, rather gentle, leisu...

1: No. I don't know why it is somewhat okay to say "Mark Twain uses the n-word in Huckleberry Finn" but not okay to say "...

i wrote a thing as a follow up to the thing that i wrote about the thing that i wrote sort of about language and bad words in the light of...

"The Physical Impossibility of Debate In the Mind of Someone On the Internet" is now available in no-frills Epub and Mobi (kindle ...

I wrote a thing about the thing that I wrote. And then I got someone who admires my writing very much to write some annotations. And ...

Nothing to say, really, is there?

If you feel that this essay is worthwhile, please consider purchasing the "extended edition" (PDF, epub, mobi) in return for a sma...

Don't miss, over on the other blog  the most prestigious music awards on my street . Favourite Album of 2012 Favourite New Version ...

Next time someone asks you what the BBC is for, listen to Kirsty's reaction to Martin Carthy's story about Scarborough Fair, and the...

Can a place of work or a school have a dress code? Yes. Ought a place of work or school to have a dress code? Dunno. Depends on h...

C.S Lewis's "trilemma" was never intended to be a proof of the existence of God. Again. The radio broadcasts were never ...

I may at some stage try and write a review of the Hobbit But on the other hand, I may just sit in the corner and weep softly to myself...

(Responding to comments on previous thread. I will get back to writing about funnybooks soon, I promise.)  Before writing anything about re...

I think that "Jacob" makes a very valid point I think his very valid point is this: The whole idea that the relationship betw...

Using analogies sometimes helps me to think straight. I think they may sometimes help other people think straight as well.  Jesus once s...