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Heresy Corner
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com
Unorthodox discussion of current affairs, religious and political controversies.
Nominated for the 2009 Orwell Prize
"The excellent Heresy Corner blog" - The Guardian
- Added on: Sep 19th, 2007
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: The Heresiarch
- Listed in: Politics Atheism
- Tags: religion politics Culture humor ideas philosophy
Recent Posts
On the House
Desperately trying to cash in on the Belle de Jour fallout, the News of the World carries an interview with an artificially busty 25-year old who - strapped for cash as a student - threw over a potential legal career for the easy money of the "high-c...
Unelectoral politics
At first sight, the twin appointment of Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Cathy Ashton to their respective eminences in the EU would appear to embody a principle of duality. He: male, from a small country, from a centre-right party, an elected politici...
EU Haiku
Herman Van RompuyIs quite well known in BelgiumBut who's this Ashton? © 2009 Heresy Corner, all rights reserved. ...
Get out and walk
This is a guest post by ValdemarIt was a Nobel prize-winning Swedish chemist by the name of Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was who first discovered the greenhouse effect. And it didn't take him long to conclude that burning coal (oil was just coming ...
Bloggers repel boarders
There's a memorable passage in One Hundred Years of Solitude where a "magistrate" turns up in the small but growing settlement of Macondo and informs the inhabitants that they now belong to the government. And that they are required for some bureauc...
Faith talk
As Secretary of State for "Communities" (and it's worth pausing here, just for a moment, to notice the typically New Labourish elision of title and propaganda - seen also in Miliband Minor's billing as secretary for "climate change") one of John Denh...
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