Martin In The Margins

My normblog profile appears here today.

Andrew Sullivan links to an interesting article by Katha Pollitt in The Nation , on 'the current vogue for atheism'. Pollitt is at ...

After the recent case of the Saudi rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and a prison term, there's better news from Iran. A young woman ...

Following the Archbishop of Canterbury's recent tidings of woe about western modernity, vicar and regular Guardian commentator Giles Fr...

There's another excellent post on liberal adult education and the threats to its continuing existence from the Fat Man here . It's i...

We have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control. Who said that? ...

BBC4 has screened two excellent music documentaries in the past week or so. First we were treated to a retrospective exploration of the life...