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Mike Licona's Hypocrisy: Christian Safe Spaces

Libtards and snowflakes are always banging on about safe spaces, right? My friend Counter Apologist, who contributed to my book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument, has recently written a great piece on the Resurrection, about which I will post soon. in it, he made a side point about Mike Licona

MS School District Routinely Ignores Constitution, Atheists Argue

From the American Humanist Association: The American Humanist Association (AHA) legal team just admonished leaders at the Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District in southern Mississippi after repeated constitutional violations. These egregious violations of the constitutionally-mandated separation of church and state include prayer over the intercom at football games, a football

Free Will, Responsibility, Politics and Everything Else

I recently posted on Raoul Martinez and his book Creating Freedom, as well as a TED talk that went with it. My friend sent me this email on what he thinks is a tremendous book, picking out some really pertinent parts, and listing the endorsements. Given time, it would certainly

Age Is the New Class in UK Voting: Age 34 Is the Crossover

Labour used to be the party fo the working class, what with its history in workers' rights. Not so much anymore. Analysis from YouGov shows that age has become the new class in dividing the nation, along with education. Here are some snippets from them: Age: The new dividing

America Is the Greatest! Pt 2: Opportunity.

This is the second part to this small series. I will repost the intro for those who have not read the first one (on standard of living). Over on another post, there are some raging threads about a number of topics from gun crime to how great America is. It

Peers accuse Government of ‘playing with fire’ over plans for unlimited religious selection in schools

From the British Humanist Association: Members of the House of Lords have strongly criticised the Government’s plans to remove the 50% cap on religious selection in new English ‘faith’ schools, as part of a parliamentary debate about the Government’s new grammar schools proposals. Peers raised serious concerns about

UK Govt Looking to Give Faith Schools 100% Selection on Faith

Theresa May is turning out to be a really bad PM, regressively appealing to the fringe right in the party, some of whom she has put into leadership positions in her cabinet (Liam Fox and David Davis, anybody?). She has decided that social mobility is just something for liberal lefties,

free market economics

Academisation - A Non-Evidence-Based Ideological Crusade on Education. I Am Angry.

At last our schools will be “set free” by George Osborne. They’ll be “free from local bureaucracy”, no longer run by councils but governed instead by academies, such as the one set up by carpet millionaire Lord Harris. It seems incredible that up until now, no one has taken

Some Secular Petitions for my UK Readers to Sign

Some Secular Petitions for my UK Readers to Sign

Thge UK government has a petitions sheme where official petitions which garner enough signatures must be debated in Parliament. A couple of recent ones have caught my attention, and I would like for as many people to sign them as possible. The first concerns Bishops in the House of Lords:

David Hawgood [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

'Free schools are a vanity project and a reckless waste of public money'

Geoff Barton, headteacher of King Edward VI School in Suffolk, writes: I drove in to work this morning listening to Radio 4’s Today programme. I wasn’t quick enough to avoid its regular Thought for the Day segment. But in a way I’m glad. Because straight afterwards education secretary Nicky Morg

Government approves 12 new religious Free Schools

The BHA has released this: During a speech detailing Conservative plans to open 500 new free schools by 2020, David Cameron has today announced the approval of 49 new Free Schools due to open from September 2015 and beyond. This includes 12 new religious schools. The British Humanist Association (BHA)

Free School praised by Michael Gove ordered to close due to bullying and religious bigotry

A Christian free school lauded by Education Secretary Michael Gove has been ordered to close after inspectors accused pupils of harbouring “prejudiced views” of children from other faiths which went unchallenged by their teachers.

David Hawgood [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The Perfect Storm : Gove’s Teacher Shortage

For those of you who are in the teaching profession, or who are interested in politics, and how Govian free market economics is trying to usurp education, then this is fascinating. It's a tour de force, from Disappointed Idealist: Something hideous this way comes. It’s a teacher shortage. Nothing

Malala's father on TED

Malala's father on TED

This was a pretty interesting talk, with some lovely moments to lift as quotes. One of my favourites was the final closer: People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don'

Woo hoo! Yes! Zippedy doo whoop!... Oh shit...

YES!!! GIVE IS OUT, GOVE IS OUT, WHOOP DE DOO, GOVE IS OUT. GOVE HAS GONE, GOVE HAS GONE, YAY YAY YAY, GOVE HAS GONE!

Why I am going on strike

Why I am going on strike

Wednesday 26th is an important day for the National Union of Teachers here in the UK. We have voted to go out on strike and I am going to do so, foregoing my pay for the day. I don't take this action lightly, but then nor do I accept hat he government is doing to the education system lightly. I woul

Gove and Free Schools are an embarrassment. Shocker.

So I have written a number of times about Gove and his penchant for free market economics in school and his libertarian approach to education. And how it totally sucks. Well, his Free School initiative is terrible and is faltering as the days go by. Between Free Schools and Academies, he is doing a

Why I Support the Teachers' Strike - I will be on the March!

On the 17th October, teachers in my area will be striking. Here are the reasons why I support this strike with every fibre of my being and why I will be with my fellow striking teachers on a march in Portsmouth. What I do find annoying is that the unions