Random other stuff
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There’s never been a better time to make music
Those of you who follow what I do regularly (and — just a reminder — my writing and podcast are now on Substack) will know that I often write about the problems in the world. The world has many problems at the moment, and good news seems to be hard to come by. This is
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Essex Covid Data: Quick update
My previous post about Essex covid data generated a bit of discussion. In particular, the key question seems to be: why do the hospital admissions seem to go up 7-14 days after the case numbers go up? It struck me yesterday that there’s a simple and straightforward answer: people who have symptoms get tested. In
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Random Lockdown Generator
This is just a bit of fun… I felt a bit depressed last night about Lockdown II. I had a bit of an idea and decided to relieve some of the tension by making a random lockdown generator. You can find it here. You just click the button and it will generate ten random restrictions
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How to hide political memes on Facebook
In my opinion, one of the worst things about Facebook is the political memes. Here’s how you hide political memes on Facebook. As I said fairly recently, I think social media is pretty toxic at the moment. One of the reasons I think it’s toxic is that it’s a terrible environment to discuss politics. To
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Introducing Friend Zone
I’ve been working on a new website for the last few weeks called Friend Zone. The idea has been brewing for a while now, but it’s something which I’ve only felt able to put into practice recently. Here’s a video of me explaining what the site is about: https://youtu.be/qq3lNlEXyoU Why don’t you take a look?
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Sex is burning the house down #MeToo
Sex is like fire. In the fireplace it keeps us warm. Outside the fireplace it burns down the house. Ray Ortlund. Apologies if I’ve reminded you of a song by the Kings of Leon (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, consider yourself fortunate). I came across the quote above recently and I found it
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The Bible and (same-sex) marriage: Cutting through to the root issue
Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have blogged quite a few times about marriage, and in particular same-sex marriage. You can see my previous posts under the “marriage” tag. Anyway, it seems we are still talking about marriage: the debate has simply moved from society – where same-sex marriage is now a
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Brexit and the decline of Christian understanding
The last few days I have felt particularly ashamed to be British. Not because the country voted to leave the EU, but because of the backlash following it. I appreciate that many people felt deeply unhappy with the result – it’s natural and understandable. Many people believed that leaving the EU was the wrong decision.
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Cathy Warwick and Pro-Choice Logic
Cathy Warwick has been in the news lately – she signed the Royal College of Midwives up to support a legal campaign for the removal of abortion limits in the UK. (Currently, if a woman undergoes an abortion outside of the law, it is a criminal offence.) This would effectively allow abortion to happen up until
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Transgender and the new reality
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof