On 23 June 2016, two significant events took place, for me at least. First, it was the day of Britain’s referendum on whether to remain in the European Union: I was one of the 17.4 million who voted to leave. Second, I was offered and accepted a contract from Zero Books for the publication of my novel, That Existential Leap: a crime story. Continue reading “Brexit – existential leap or crime story?”
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Last year’s Bollywood hit film Rustom was just the latest fictionalised retelling of the story of Indian Navy Commander KM Nanavati. In 1959, Nanavati shot his wife’s lover dead, only to be found not guilty by a jury that seemed convinced not so much of his innocence as his righteousness. Continue reading “Rustom: populism and prejudice in the age of ‘post-truth’ politics”
CS Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law, by Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J Watson, Cambridge University Press, 2016 Continue reading “Would CS Lewis vote for Donald Trump?”
Ultimate Questions, by Bryan Magee, Princeton University Press, 2016
An essay written ahead of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Continue reading “The flimsy, fantasy politics of the Yes campaign”
Western wailing about ‘fascistic’ Modi reveals a contempt for Indian democracy. Continue reading “India: the end of Congress, not the end of the world”
An essay written ahead of the 2014 Indian general election. Continue reading “India’s election: the world’s largest question mark”
The Politics of Culture, by Munira Mirza
By promoting diversity through culture, UK policymakers have ignored precisely what makes art so valuable: its universality.
Continue reading “UK cultural policy: using art to divide us”
Equality, Freedom and Religion, by Roger Trigg
A new book attempts to ground a defence of religious freedom in cognitive science, but in doing so it reveals a lack of faith in freedom itself.
Continue reading “Religious belief is more than an evolutionary affliction”
The Bible Now, by Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Dolan Cummings 