in The Times Online, December 30, 2009

Catholic education: a church divided

in spiked, December 18, 2009

Cooped-up children? Don’t blame it on the box

BBC Four’s Hop, Skip and Jump suggested the culture of risk-aversion is a bigger problem for kids than TV and gangs.

in forth, December 3, 2009

Invasion of the modernity snatchers

Thu 03 Dec, 2009

Patrick West says the SF revival mirrors our dark view of the world – and our place in it

in spiked November 26, 2009

Revisiting the Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

Ignoring the BBC’s implicit anti-Americanism, its radio play on the 1925 creationists-v-evolutionists trial was excellent.

in spiked November 20, 2009

Never mind the guest presenters

The fashion for using a variety of hosts to replace a familiar front man reveals the BBC's indecision

In Culture Wars, November 13, 2009

Forget about it

Delete, The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (Princeton University Press)

In many respects, search engines know more about you than you do yourself. Human beings forget; digital databases do not. Thus, Mayer-Schönberger suggests, the digital age is becoming an enemy of progress. Forgetting is what make us human. Amnesia is what allows us to move on, develop and mature.

in spiked November 13, 2009

Communists can’t make cola
The Secret Life of The Berlin Wall was gripping, but it didn’t explain anything new, like why East German coke was so bad