Peter Risdon

An interview with the doctor who tried to save Neda’s life.

No display of ass-hattery will be judged excessive in the coming days. If Blair himself read a prayer at Jackson’s funeral then led the congregation in an embarrassing dance, I would hardly wince.

Margaret’s anti-burglar policy. Do listen.

I recently passed a fairly arbitrary milestone with my hosting business: thanks to a DDOS attack from a botnet against one particular system, the number of malicious contacts with my servers passed the million per day mark. This did have a slight effect on performance until I introduced a new security layer.
This sort of [...]

If I had been forced to wear a veil, I would certainly not be free to write this article. Nor would I have run a marathon, become an aerobics teacher or set up a business.
We must unite against the radical Muslim men who love to control women.
My message to those Muslims who want to [...]

If modern day Druids decided to stop poncing about in bedsheets pretending they are in Victorian paintings, and started trying to emulate what little we do know of the real historical Druids, they would start sacrificing people by drowning them. This would be a matter for the criminal law, though, not a crisis of secularism.
If [...]

like this:

… secularism:
Secularism should mean refusing to grant any special place in public life to religion or religious institutions, not actively preventing religious expression.
UPDATE: I’ve clarified what I think about secularism and the burka here.

… therefore I am.

I had to wait a long time before being able to embark on 1984. Agreeing with all that the critics have written of it, I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is.
The philosophy of the ruling minority in 1984 is a sadism that has been carried [...]