Iain Roberts' Blog

The film director Werner Herzog explained his philosophy of life last week, on Mark Kermode's film review podcast. It resonated with me...

Tim Farron is an utter dingbat and I'm glad he's stepping down as Liberal Democrat leader. Tim Farron. Source: Wikimedia Commons...

(Part 1, in which I explain why I care about Tim Farron's religious views, is here.) It seems fair to assume Tim Farron, the new Liber...

Tim Farron, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, is an evangelical Christian. In and of itself, this is not a problem; but Far...

The staff of Charlie Hebdo  showed courage and integrity, by continuing to publish after their colleagues were murdered last week; as did ma...

Today, the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were attacked by masked gunmen , apparently Islamist radicals. The attack...

"There were things to suggest to a thinking man that the Creator of mankind had a very oblique sense of fun indeed, and to breed in h...

An old schoolmate recently asked an interesting question: Most people don't really understand science. They are only repeating what ...

If the late Iain Banks had scripted an episode of Father Ted , it might have looked something like Calvary . Calvary is a meditati...

Gay marriage became legal in England and Wales on 29 March this year. I am a straight white male, which as John Scalzi has wisely observe...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Gay marriage became legal in England and Wales on 29 March this year. Personally, I think this is great news....