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Amis, Larkin, Osborne and Tynan had blokish tastes but they remained stubbornly literary.

Not entirely a fan.

Pneumonia – one of the challenges that journalism neglects because they’re not new enough to be ‘news.’

It is the domination of the public realm by the private and untestable conviction that is truly repugnant, not the conviction itself.

Quantum theory has been used to investigate everything from free will to consciousness.

Ahmadu sees herself as speaking for African women who value female genital ‘cutting.’

‘Often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension.’

Survival rate for Hodgkin’s is 80 percent with chemotherapy; the parents want ‘alternative medicine.’

A remarkable amount of the history of science has been written through biographies of ‘great’ scientists.

Money is essential to science, and at the same time it can be a dangerous corrupter.

One of the Festival’s sponsors was The Templeton Foundation, so after discussion and thought, he said No.

Dance and literature don’t contradict science; faith and religion do.

Forcing children to take part in religious worship every day is a law worthy of a theocracy, not a liberal democracy.

UN refugee agency said 200,000 people may have been displaced, with another 300,000 on the move.

You get better 16 or 17 hours sooner if you take these drugs. They’re not miracle cures.

None of the 500 British Muslims interviewed believed that homosexual acts were morally acceptable.

Many English-language websites have sprung up to proselytise for the 9/11 Truth movement.

And hair gel is for people of all hair styles, and even for bald people.

Liberalism, enlightenment and all those cerebral shibboleths can be halted at the barrel of a gun.

Thanks to quantum mechanical uncertainty, scientists can’t detect stuff, so that could be God.