Columns

From 1997 to 2004, I wrote occasional columns for the Independent’s Saturday series ‘Faith & Reason’ and its seasonal series ‘Arguments for Easter’ and ‘Meanings of Christmas’. On the right are links to a dozen of the best.

Here are two pieces I wrote for Third Way about Samson and suicide bombing and Moses and terror.

I’ve also contributed a number of shorter and pithier pieces to Third Way’s long-running series ‘Icon of the Month’. I love writing these, and over the years have tried to deconstruct:

• the Titanic

• the Union Jack

• McDonald’s

• the year 2000

• the tiger

• the Rolling Stones

• Pokémon

• the F word

• John Lennon

• Africa

• Winnie-the-Pooh

• King Kong

• nuclear weapons

• the heavens

• Tintin

• the swastika

• the innocent civilian

• Che Guevar a

• the polar bear

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