Politics is complicated. Successive governments, all over the globe, try and often fail to solve the social problems for which they are voted in. Whether these problems are economic or moral, they aren’t often easy to solve. One of the biggest reasons for this in recent times is the failure of ideology to be evidence-based. … More Nationalism: The Modern Day Snake Oil Salesmen in Politics

As the Scottish independence referendum came to a close in 2014, the high turnout suggested to the world that Scotland had found a political awakening. Yet the battle was mostly not one of reasoned political debate, igniting passion and interest, but of successfully framing the debate in terms of ‘positive and new’ versus ‘negative and … More How the snp have all but closed down political debate in Scotland.

John Gray’s recent Guardian article threatened to unearth the ‘New Atheists’ Achilles heel; what we are really afraid of. Yet, in reality, he provided nothing more than a few digs of the ‘atheism will never win’ type, swiftly backed up with apologism on behalf of religious atrocities/against atheistic atrocities, all wrapped up in a cosy … More What really scares the ‘new atheists’?