RDN due on BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live
I've been booked for the BBC TV's Sunday ethics and religion show, and here are some sketches of what I hope to say... Read more...
RDN’s media outings.
When asked to argue on TV, radio or on a platform, I usually sketch out 10 propositions which are worth trying to get across. (There's a section like this on the archive site too.)Page 4
RDN on The Big Questions
I've been asked to have a go at a Big Question for this show, tomorrow. Here goes.... Read more...
RDN on public sector covenant & pensions on BBC R4
The Today Programme (10 March 2011) asked a man from Compass (the think tank) and me what we thought about the idea of a Public Sector Covenant. Is there, like the Military Covenant, a special understanding or settlement with civil servants of every sort. I said no.... Read more...
RDN on aid on BBC Big Questions
The British state is right to have a growing international aid budget. How on earth could a screaming right-winger argue this? Well, BBC1's Big Questions asked my opinion on the matter and I surprised myself thus.... Read more...
RDN on library cuts on BBC R4 You & Yours
Local libraries, like woodlands, seem to inflame the English middle class in a very special way. So it was good fun to go on BBC Radio 4's You & Yours and bat for the closure programme. Read more...
RDN, the Pope’s visit, and BBC R4’s “Sunday”
I had a v brief outing on Radio 4's Sunday religious current affairs programme, and it's a privilege to be asked. Here's the crib I prepared for the event, in which I was asked about the protest dimension of the Pope's forthcoming visit. Read more...
RDN on oil spills and ecological disaster on R4 “Today”
I went on the BBC morning news show to say that the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico (a) might be dreadful but (b) would be the first such celebrity event to be an ecological disaster if it is one. Read more...
Libya and lying about “The Scottish decision”
Sending Mr al-Megrahi home to Libya has produced one of the most interesting muddles and mysteries of our time. I don't think we can trust anyone in authority to tell us what they really think. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Read more...
Protest shouldn’t break the law
I'm due on the BBC's The Big Questions show in the morning. One of the subjects is protest and in particular the Climate Camp. If you save the planet, can you break the law? Read more...
Affluence really isn’t immoral
The BBC's The Big Questions has asked me on to discuss consumerism. Presumably they want me to defend it and I'm pretty happy to do that. Of course, I intend to be a little mealy-mouthed. I am very happy to defend affluence and inequality. I think people do little harm and much good as consumers, but I suppose consumerism is one degree too materialist to be wholly satisfactory. Read more...