The Plashing Vole

I rather enjoyed President Obama's inaugural speech yesterday - a masterpiece of liberal rhetoric designed to tickle the political G-spo...

If I were a vole of faith, which I'm not, I'd feel pretty let down by my political leaders: those who profess a strong faith (such a...

If you've read Baroness Warsi (Tory cabinet minister with no responsibilities, appointed to make David Cameron look non-sexist and non-r...

As you might have noticed, I'm a keen atheist, albeit a Catholic atheist. So I've been watching the resignation of Canon Giles Frase...

Those delightful folks of the Westboro Baptist Church are planning to picket the funeral of Christine Taylor-Green, the nine-year old girl m...

Mr Marr is rapidly declining mentally. Last week he uttered some rather confused and uninformed pearls of wisdom about blogging , this week ...

What according to the Catholic Herald , is frightening in its sheer vicious irrationality. These people are in the grip of a barely restrai...

A lovely advert from Humble Oil in 1962. 'Each day Humble supplies enough Energy  to melt 7 million tons of glacier'! from an art...

For the past few weeks, I've mostly been listening to Riot Grrl and 80s/90s indie pop ( Pale Saints and Heavenly mostly), but the next...

My esteemed colleague Steve Jacobs has just had a book published. It's called Hinduism Today , and will be the core text for anyone inte...

Today's music is a collection of Byzantine hymns and music from Vespers, the evening prayers, by the Balamand Monastery. Yes, I'm an...

Striking a massive blow for mystics everywhere, the Church of England has voted to work towards female bishops (one day) - equal opportuniti...

She's like all of Ewar's letter-writers rolled into one. She's so quotably insane that she's clearly a parody. This is all f...

It was God. At least, if you listen to tele-evangelist and former US Presidential candidate Pat Robertson (6 minutes into the video). He...

I'm happy today. Despite the fact that the Ultimate Authority of the Hegemon got a 7% pay rise (from £213,000 to £228,000) while lots of...

I don't know how often you think of Northern Ireland, or what your perception of it is. Perhaps you remember it as a place of violent se...

What a rotten day it's been. I'm tired, grouchy and deaf. I should have been sparkling before an invited audience of sixth-formers g...

The godless, heathens and heretics (I'm looking at you, Left Behind ) have had the gaming world to themselves for too long. It's tim...

In case you missed it, Pope Benedictosaurus has announced that any reactionary, bigoted Anglican vicars who are fed up of women tidying up t...

The French, not keen on cults (ask the Cathars ), have convicted the Scientologists of organised fraud! The organisation hasn't been c...