The Philosophical Muser

  The sad thing about watching contemporary politics is that it is full of so many con artists in front of a willing public who falls for wh...

Oh dear. As much as I disliked Keir Starmer’s Labour - and I reeeaaally did dislike them - from what I’ve heard from Burnham’s Labour Party ...

  Let’s begin with a statement that is both provocative and unsettling: we never truly predict anything entirely new. By ‘entirely new,’ I m...

Every few days recently, young people who get most of their political theories from Instagram show off their arithmetic by announcing that i...

  Suppose an atheist hears two scenarios: Scenario 1: A man comes to believe Jesus is Lord by seeing a miraculous healing in church Scen...

  "Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. ” Thomas Merton Alongside that is Calvinist pastor and psychoanalyst...

Depressingly, according to Rob Henderson, the number of incoming college students who describe their political beliefs as “far left” has tri...

  You can tell a lot about the credibility of many views in public discourse by analysing the groups of people who subscribe to them. You ca...

  One of the reasons I’ve written a whole book dedicated to the physics and economics of climate change is because the mainstream scientific...

I think it’s high time that Christians spoke more confidently about politics from a Christian perspective, because currently too many Christ...

  Some people say they have an absence of evidence for God’s existence or that He has remained hidden from them. The problem is, if God know...

  1) Love and virtue At a human level, if Jack falls in love with Jill, then that love isn’t a virtue, it’s a feeling. But we are told by Je...

  The extreme left and extreme right who continue to dominate the headlines may be extremely opposed in viewpoints, but they are highly alik...

Some people are getting agitated and hostile at the pumps. Now, I know the cost of living pressures are tough, and I sympathise. But what we...

Criticisms of one misjudged thing often mirror the properties of criticisms for other misjudged things. Think of the critique of socialism a...

  The world can be split into 3 groups of people   Those who know less than they need to. Those who know about as much as they need to. Thos...

When it comes to goods and services in the free market, four things will happen:  1) Increase in Supply 2) Decrease in Supply ...

  As I argued a few years ago in my blog about the Easterlin Paradox , individual happiness is fairly hard to measure, and global happiness ...

As I was cycling through the city earlier this evening, I felt my regular lament at the ugly sight of graffiti tagging that spoils so many b...

Scientific and technological progress is accelerating so quickly that I regularly reassure my readers that the coming decades will bring unp...

  I think Jimmy McGovern’s The Street is one of the best British TV dramas ever. One of the many memorable episodes, like the one I rewatch...