Claire Sweeney's big fat... What exactly was Claire Sweeney's motivation to put on as much weight as possible in a short time?
Running from the void Key points in Mohammed's life and a comparison with his reaction to the temptation to power to Jesus's. An attempt to release more heat than light in the run-up to the trial of the Vogelenzangs, who have been accused of insulting Islam.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows From Harry Potter through such stopping points as Odysseus and back - but contains spoilers: big ones!
The orthodoxy of orthodonty There's more to life than perfect teeth.
Crocs, giraffes and the vagrant nerve: inside nature's giants Richard Dawkins attends the dissection of a giraffe's recurent laryngeal nerve by,among others, Joy Reidenberg, but fails to forward his agenda with the innervation of unborn vertebrates.
Top Ten songs about HopeIn darker times it's good to reflect, among other things, on those parts of popular culture that point towards another place - upstairs, as it were.
Don't go down the road to hell, it's jammed with bendy-buses How an amusing article by comedienne Ariane Sherine was subverted by radical militant atheists with sinister agendas.
The price of not being a victim Abducted toddler Madeleine McCann's parents have paid the price in spades for not playing the victim role for the more manipulative sectors of the media.
How diverse is diversity? On a diversity course, a left-leaning friend of mine pointed out that diversity isn't a good in itself, and pointed to Adolf Hitler as the most diversity-aware leader of modern times. I'm working on putting him in touch with his inner conservative.
When agendas come together On why it can be wrong to permit euthanasia and to give a liver transplant to somebody who had tried to kill himself. Written before the Liverpool Care Pathway controversy, and contains a discussion of suicide.
Abigail Blackburn and the truth about pregorexia Celebrity culture eats its own children, and nobody profits more than editors like Abigail Blackburn.
Women and children first The Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre remains open - just - but a women's refuge in Dorset is being closed down because it doesn't cater for men.
Anne Frank In the display on Anne Frank in Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital - the foundation was delivering diversity training - we saw the world famous picture of Anne staring into a future she would never see.
How The Simpsons made my day As my faith in my ability to stand against politically correct anti-life fascism faltered, I little suspected that The Simpsons would come to my rescue.
Blood, tears and celebrity dentists An NHS dentist resembling Brad Pitt comes to the rescue of a woman badly served by profiteers.
Underage smoking is more stupid than criminal An unorthodox but time-honoured way to discourage an underage smoker.
The passions of Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will soon be retiring from Opera, but will remain active in teaching singers how to produce the music she is so passionate about. Simon Cowell need not apply.
Swine flu - is it time to panic yet? The stampede of people who sought to have themselves diagnosed (or otherwise) with swine flu on the government website/helpline smacked of panic.
Maunday Thursday - beyond the comfort zone When I admitted at Morning Prayer that not going to Church was becoming as normal as going had once been, our Curate replied with one of Christianity's greatest weapons - hilarity; one of the suggestions was to chain me to a pew.
Golliwog-gate:the racism of anti-racists When Carol Thatcher, daughter of the former prime-minister, was accused of racism, were there sinister undercurrents at play?
Top ten songs about places Sometimes songs about places strike a chord, and can stay with us over a lifetime.
Whales and unintelligent evolution: Inside Nature's Giants The on-site autopsy of a huge fin-whale that grounded itself and died on Courtmacsherry Bay in Cork.
Elephants, Arthritis and Euthanasia: Inside Nature's Giants Channel 4's cerebral treatment of a post-mortem on an elephant.
Eurovision Song Contest 2009 - the music won Alexander Rybak took the prize at the best Eurovision for years. It's just a pity Terry Wogan had to retire to get the sleaze stopped.
Margaret Thatcher - it was 30 years ago today The anniversary of the election of Great Britain's greatest peacetime prime-minister.
Why does the BBC hate intelligent women? The BBC's shameful persecution of Oxford's Corpus Christi College University Challenge team, fronted by the "human google" Gail Trimble, revealed the corporation's underlying misogyny.
Advent - preparing for the preparation Meditating on the Magnificat can take you to strange places.
Hot gossip: Sarah Kennedy and the obvious observation Sarah Kennedy committed the closest thing to a mortal sin in the BBC by calling Enoch Powell the greatest Prime Minister Britain never had.
The ichneumon delusion Review of the first of three programmes in which Richard Dawkins ostensibly celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birh, but in reality announces his self-apotheosis.
Night Fighters Some wars are with us for a long time - Colin Heaton's and Anne-Marie Lewis's authoratative history of the night-war over Europe 1939-1945, and the advances in many fields which came about as a result.
