Culture & Media Time to Call a Truce in the Gender Wars Posted on November 5, 2017December 30, 20173 commentsbyAR Devine If you are a news and current affairs junkie like myself, you could quickly come to the conclusion that men and women are at war with each other across the… View Post
View Post 3 min Politics After Barcelona: Let the Denial and Excuses Begin Posted on August 18, 2017September 8, 20176 commentsbyAR Devine In the aftermath of yet another Islamist attack in Europe, this time in Barcelona, the usual excuse makers will still be trying to blame the Iraq war, or the Crusades,… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics In Bed with Homophobes: Thrashing the Left with Their Own Yardstick Posted on July 8, 2017September 8, 2017One commentbyAR Devine As a secular liberal atheist I can’t believe that I am about to write an article that is partly in defense of the Democratic Unionist Party, but such is the… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media Politics A Straight White Male Mansplains “Mansplaining” Posted on June 8, 2017September 9, 20177 commentsbyAR Devine Over the past decade or so the term “mansplaining” has entered our everyday vernacular. I don’t think it is conducive to constructive social and political discourse to coin a term… View Post
View Post 3 min Politics Geert Wilders: Enemy of Liberal Values, Symptom of Liberal Acquiescence to Religious Extremism Posted on March 23, 2017September 9, 20173 commentsbyAR Devine Common sense has prevailed in Holland. The Dutch people have returned Mark Rutte of the center-Right People’s Party to power. Whatever the legitimate criticisms Wilders and his Freedom Party have… View Post
View Post 11 min Politics Moderates in the Extreme: The Islamist Spectrum and its Challenge for Liberal Democracy Posted on January 24, 2017September 9, 20173 commentsbyAR Devine One day in 2011 when I was living in Manchester, I encountered a Christian fundamentalist standing on Market Street wearing a sandwich board that expressed some of the fundamentals of… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics Feeding the Two Far Rights: How Western Leaders Betray Liberal Values Posted on November 21, 2016August 25, 2017No commentsbyAR Devine The President of the United States and leader of the free world, Barack Obama, won’t even use the words ‘Islamic terrorism’ to talk about terrorism that is inspired by a… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media Politics Louis Smith and the Media Enforcement of Blasphemy Laws Posted on November 21, 2016August 25, 20172 commentsbyAR Devine Did you hear there’s a film called ‘Life of Omar’ in production? It’s the Islamic equivalent of the Monty Python classic ‘Life of Brian’ in which a young Arab man… View Post