en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2874730 Comments by leopold1904 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-jihadist.html#IDComment867235908 Brilliant H Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:21:06 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-jihadist.html#IDComment867235908 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/12/forced-caesarian-mothers-story-and.html#IDComment761417315 Thanks H - a complex and worrying story. Tue, 3 Dec 2013 20:41:05 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/12/forced-caesarian-mothers-story-and.html#IDComment761417315 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/10/selling-downton-to-chinese.html#IDComment735004457 Wonder if Brief Encounter has the same appeal in China that it does in Japan - that buttoned up Brit thing. Never seen Downton myself. I managed to avoid Terry and June for decades then saw one episode on Dave last year and boy it was scary. Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:17:40 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/10/selling-downton-to-chinese.html#IDComment735004457 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/10/so-what-is-paul-dacre-playing-at.html#IDComment731803223 Well at least Mehdi Hasan approves of him. . . Wonder what the odds are in mehdi becoming mail editor in a few years. Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:05:39 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/10/so-what-is-paul-dacre-playing-at.html#IDComment731803223 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/09/springtime-for-godfrey.html#IDComment723208778 This Bloom loves it H! Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:46:14 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/09/springtime-for-godfrey.html#IDComment723208778 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/09/armchair-generals-underestimate.html#IDComment714660516 Excellent piece again H many thanks. Thu, 5 Sep 2013 19:15:17 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/09/armchair-generals-underestimate.html#IDComment714660516 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-syria-right-thing-to-do-may-be-wrong.html#IDComment710252856 Great to see Milliband standing up and saying 'Hold on'. Cameron's eagerness to embrace Obama on this is madness - as the Telegraph says he now looks spectacularly weak, being outflanked not just on the left but outflanked on the right of his own party, where Farage's scepticism has deep resonance. Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:23:26 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-syria-right-thing-to-do-may-be-wrong.html#IDComment710252856 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-syria-right-thing-to-do-may-be-wrong.html#IDComment709997804 Definitely? If we are being literal, for Muslims it is taking place in the 14th century! Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:58:04 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-syria-right-thing-to-do-may-be-wrong.html#IDComment709997804 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-syria-right-thing-to-do-may-be-wrong.html#IDComment709644615 Great piece H. 'The balance of probability at the moment must be that Western intervention will make the situation worse.' Agree absolutely. This is an 8th or 9th century conflict - Sunni against Shia, Arab against Persian. Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:44:22 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-syria-right-thing-to-do-may-be-wrong.html#IDComment709644615 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/why-do-so-many-nobel-laureates-look.html#IDComment698175156 Craig Brown is a genius. Dawkins has had his share of exasperating encounters with Islamic obscurantism - eg on salt and fresh water not mixing - but he has acquired an aggressive persona and wants to live up to it. Alas. Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:44:52 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/why-do-so-many-nobel-laureates-look.html#IDComment698175156 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/peter-capaldi-and-doctor-whos-diversity.html#IDComment698171922 Yes he is a white man H but he is also a member of a very distinct ethnic minority, the Scottish-Italians, a minority that suffered a lot of discrimination in Scotland in the 20t century - and has contributed enormously to British society. Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:36:24 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/peter-capaldi-and-doctor-whos-diversity.html#IDComment698171922 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/07/pope-francis-making-saints-up-as-he.html#IDComment676155549 the polytheism thing is used as a stick by Sunni fundies to beat up the Sufi and the Shia but of course Sunni fundies (and Christian fundies) themselves pick and choose from the auld stuff. Servitors of Chthulthu they are! Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:59:15 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/07/pope-francis-making-saints-up-as-he.html#IDComment676155549 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-life-people-aspire-to-be-archetypes.html#IDComment671972785 Damn second para not fully quoted. Deleted post and start again! - Excellent stuff H. 'As for Laurie's claim that "men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story [while] women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's", that may have been largely true once, when the only long-term career open to most women was marriage and motherhood, but surely isn't any more.' I'd mark the change's funniest first appearance in fiction as one of the twists in that wicked Amis/Conquest novel The Egyptologists! Great conclusion, love that on the Wags and Lizzie. Very true. Tue, 2 Jul 2013 06:32:25 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-life-people-aspire-to-be-archetypes.html#IDComment671972785 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-chief-rabbi-versus-barbarians.html#IDComment665420115 Have to say he is a man with no pretensions. I once edited a book on etiquette which advised the reader to address him as 'the Chief Dr Rabbit' and he was very gracious! Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:26:40 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-chief-rabbi-versus-barbarians.html#IDComment665420115 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/06/talksport-sends-tom-holland-to.html#IDComment661135220 That's a cracker H - wonder if Cif would put him up to talk about it! The impressuion I get is that suggesting tgat Mohammed is a nonhistorical figure is not a problem - but if you insult him it is a problem. Holland seems to have been respectful in his approach so don't see the problem. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:36:26 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/06/talksport-sends-tom-holland-to.html#IDComment661135220 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-problem-with-humanist-weddings.html#IDComment647735505 'Unlike Humanist funerals, which do answer to a particular need, Humanist weddings strike me as inessential. ' Hmm as Saint Kenny Dalglish was wont to say, Mibbes aye, Mibbes naw' H! Depends on how society agrees to see them and how of course the individual sees them. My mum's humanist funeral here in Glasgow was seen by some of the more orthodox neighbours as a bit off the wall, now they are ten a penny (for the ferryman as it were). Humanist weddings are now commonplace as well here. They answer a need, which is what social conventions are for. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:09:34 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-problem-with-humanist-weddings.html#IDComment647735505 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/explaining-peace-paradox.html#IDComment632837679 Hmm - what di we know? Medics Against Violence was founded in Glasgow by young medics who realised they were treating far more A&E stabbings tha were being recorded by the cops. If someone came in with a slash or a stab and walked out without talking to the cops then nothing had happened. Ranger and Celtic youth teams payed each other at Fiirhill on Monday night. The cops said they only arrested a handful people, but i live near Firhill and there were street fights going on all round that have not appeared in the official accounts. Wed, 1 May 2013 14:42:49 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/explaining-peace-paradox.html#IDComment632837679 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/dawkins-and-flying-horse.html#IDComment626904129 As God explains to the narrator in Amis' The Green Man, basically he can do what he likes and the temptation to plonk a dinosaur down in a London street is always there. Great piece H. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:34:20 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/dawkins-and-flying-horse.html#IDComment626904129 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-thatcher-deserves-proper-funeral.html#IDComment620314186 Ah Wooly - so you belong among those who believe the Beatles are dying in the wrong order Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:43:50 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-thatcher-deserves-proper-funeral.html#IDComment620314186 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-thatcher-deserves-proper-funeral.html#IDComment617443227 I disagree H - I think a quiet funeral in the style that was (I gather) the US norm for militray and political bods after the American Civil War - so little common emotional ground. I think Salmond has it right about the funeral. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:52:52 +0000 http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-thatcher-deserves-proper-funeral.html#IDComment617443227