A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
The National Secular Society have produced a report (PDF) calling for disestablishment of the church and pointing out the “unique” situation Britain currently resides in with more church-state overlap than any other Western nation.
Two great Londonist stories: The Sun is a totally humourless rag and our much-beloved friends at the Met are invesgitating whether the Gay Police Association have committed a “faith crime”. Oh, horray, people are being shot in the streets and the Met are investigating faith crime. Perhaps next they should move on to superstition crime, I’m-not-religious-I’m-spiritual crime and finish up with a chocolate-covered helping of there’s-got-to-be-something-out-there crime.
Speaking of which, this cartoon pretty much sums up everything that needs to be said about the Met.
I love this Daily Show clip about the Royal Family. Superb.
It is starting, ladies and gents.
Halley Suitt points to coverage in the Boston Globe for Stylefeeder and Top 10 Sources.
One more tick in the “capitalism” column: most people enjoy their job.
