“Grub first, then ethics”
Somewhere in the imposing tome, Less than Nothing, author Slavoj Žižek relates an anecdote about the attitudes taken by Bertolt Brecht and Dashiell Hammett in their respective McCarthy-inspired HUAC trials.
Don’t be Agnostic About Interfaith
Umar Nasser, President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association, on matters of interfaith
Confessions of a GTA: Part 5
GTAs are helpful only when asked nicely
Of the h-bar, Boris and the weather
Another editorial!
What does the Future Hold for Tibet?
At least 120 Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest against Chinese rule since 2009. It’s the only peaceful way they’ve been able to broadcast their recurrent message: Save Tibet. It seems that their message has fallen on deaf ears...
Kenya: What is Next?
I was born in Kenya. I lived there until I was 10 years old. I learned to swear at someone in Kiswahili and Kikuyu. One of my fondest Kenyan memories is my first ever live cricket match at the Gymkhana Stadium in Nairobi. It was the 2003 World Cup and Sri Lanka were in town...
Fracking Versus Science Communication
The word ‘fracking’ has become aligned with unconditional taboo in the United Kingdom in a two year interval. Strong public scepticism has been fuelled by the parade of paraphernalia arriving from the USA...
Halloween, Council and Education
This week's editorial...
Atheism and the Irony of Religion
Irony has always been, well, ironic. Take for example Aristophanes, great ancient Greek satirist of whom Nietzsche said ‘that transfiguring, complementary genius, for whose sake one pardons all of Hellenism for having existed’, and his play The Clouds.
Saudi Arabia: Is driving a human right?
I’ve always been in love with driving. In school, when I was learning to drive, my Physics teacher told me that he wished that we were in Saudi Arabia, where women are banned from driving, because then at least I’d shut up about it in his lessons.
Confessions of a GTA: Part 4
“On a field trip a GTA is the best person to be”
Royalties from the Royalty
Christy Kelly on the Monarchy