AN OUTSIDE VIEW

I began posting when I was away from the UK during the summer. If you have followed these blogs, you will know that my main interest is not religion but the environment, transport, economics and taxation. A consistent theme amongst their journalists in those subject areas is an excellent and penetrating description of an issue, let down by a failure in analysis, often leading them to advocating policies which would be ineffective or indeed counter-productive. Occasionally, there are flashes of insight in the responses, but sadly they are rare. Given that most people would agree that there is hardly an area of public policy in Britain which can be regarded as an unqualified success, this lack of insight is worrying, and frankly I fear for the future of this country to the extent that I am seriously considering emigrating, to one of the Scandinavian countries. Which of course naturally leads to the issue of religion. The Scandinavian countries have received large numbers of immigrants fr...

This is what the Guardian told me. The parody was too subtle to be recognised for what it was... You had your posting rights removed after you wrote posts such as this: "But everyone knows that the Catholic Church is a continuation of the Nazi Party and the Pope is the sucessor to Adolf Hitler. And all priests are paedophiles. So it was a good move of Amnesty to come into the open and shake off this evil reactionary organisation. Why the surprise that it has responded precisely as it did when Amnesty took the principled stand it did. Abortion is a basic human right. Everyone has a right to be aborted." and "We seem to be getting defensive articles about Islam two or three times a week. Judging by the comments, their main effect is to stir up hostility. In which case silence might be more productive. As an aside, what precisely is Islam for? When Islam came into existence, thre were already two perfectly good religions for people who want to believe in God - Judaism and C...