For the promotion of rigour and rationality

I have not blogged in ages, but I felled compelled to touch upon a topic I wrote on some time ago . This is the insistence of Swedish gover...

The Brits voted in the referendum whose question was clear: should the UK stay in the EU or leave? After they voted, many went to the Int...

Earlier this year, Vanessa Redgrave praised Greek islanders for helping  refugees arriving en masse in Aegean islands such as Kos. It was ...

There are a lot of things happening in Sweden that makes everyone who is not Swedish feel very uncomfortable. The most recent of them is ...

According to Courrier International, more and more of Republican sympathisers in the US do not believe in the theory of evolution. In 5 ye...

I just read, via BBC, the existence of an indicator of a country's corruption, called corruption perceptions index , created by an orga...

The crisis in Greece has given rise to a gang, called Golden Dawn (Χρυσή Αυγή) who have, at the moment, risen to the third place. There are...

Once upon a time, we used to think that there is one country in the world where religion was playing little role. Yes, that was Soviet Unio...

As " a Nadder " puts it, the following video is a hilariously inept and patronising ad by the European Commission, "trying...

As well-known, in the latest parliamentary elections (6 May 2012) in Greece, the parties Coalition of the Radical Left (ΣΥΡΙΖΑ) and Golden ...

This blog is about rationality. So, when I spot things which are irrational, I write about them. Indeed, an offence to one's sense of l...

November is almost gone, and I have posted almost nothing. Too much work, I guess. Here's what caught my attention recently. The term ...

No doubt, the Greek financial crisis is due to, among others, (i) politicians' greed (they did put a lot of money in their pockets, an...

 Suppose you are a leader of a big country. Say the Roman empire. Or Russia. What do you do to make people follow you? One way is to identif...

I knew it . When I questioned the ridiculous habit of many to attach lots and lots of titles in their names, when I wondered why on Earth a ...

Some people find that my family name is too long. Not infrequently, US supermarket cashiers used to  ask whether I had difficulty learning h...

Today  I saw, on the front page of the German newspaper, "Die Welt" the picture of  a woman, called Christine O'Donnell, toge...

UK libel laws are unjust, against the public interest and internationally criticised - there is urgent need for reform. [ Source ] Freedom...

In April 1994, a Catholic priest, Athanase Seromba, promised safety to 2000 men, women and children in his church in Rwanda. These people ex...

The Pope is going to visit the UK and charge us 20 million pounds in order to tell us that the British equality legislation is running co...