This is in response to Sackerson’s piece on Richard Dawkins. It is probably not my best work, given my lack of sleep. I have read ‘The God Delusion’, and Anthony Flew’s review of it. Most of the former is concerned with the science of why religion appears to exist, based on the scientific evidence available. In his first major point, Flew chooses to focus on Dawkins’ ...

So, the wifie didn’t sleep well. Feeling a bit Meh. “I’m off for a deep hot bath. Maybe then I’ll feel like doing the housework”. “OK, although having the bath before the work is interesting….” An hour later. Wifie on sofa. “Didn’t the bath make you feel better?” “Yes, but how can I clean the

Professor of sleep and physiology Derk-Jan Dijk explains how the brain works with little rest.

A top security Northern Ireland jail could go into meltdown when hundreds of dissident republicans hold a huge 24-hour rally and fast at its gates. The protestors will sleep outside Maghaberry prison, on the outskirts of the staunchly loyalist Co Antrim village, in tents and camper vans later this month.  All the North's paramilitary prisoners are housed in the jail. Enraged loyalis...

Both sides believe that only if their ideas are adopted in legislation can the public sleep safely without risk of another financial disaster

BREAKING NEWS (NOVEMBER 3, 20011): "Italian 10-year bond yields rose to 6.399 per cent, while the extra premium the country pays over Germany jumped to 459 basis points." (FT) Or better yet, read'em and try not to lose sleep! The world knows only too well the crisis that is currently consuming Greece, the rest of the EU and by extension the globe. A huge two-day drop in the global markets is ...

The camp forced St Paul’s to close for the first time since the Blitz and is costing local businesses thousands of pounds a day. But most of the protesters are heading home to sleep in their own beds at night. Infra red images taken by a police helicopter during the early hours show that only

Wait..... did I sleep through Conference Season? No, it just seemed that way. It says something about the pointless of the modern party conference that the closest we got to an actual conservative point during the whole nightmare came from Ed Milliband. Personally, I liked Special Ed's idea to divide businesses into 'good' and 'bad' categories with different laws and tax rates for each. It's like ...

The Occupy Wall Street lunacy drones on around the country while the scent, the arrests and piles of garbage continues to grow! And now the hunt is on to find the "rich" people of New York City where they sleep (Map below)! But should you be one of the attendees protesting free enterprise and capitalism while calling for government handouts from cradle to grave? Should you join the ranks of the ri...

Andrew Rawnlsey bemoans the conference season as a gathering of lilliputians, in his Observer column today. While he reserved his greatest ire for a George Osborne speech so low-key it would drive insomniacs to sleep, he was little kinder about the leaders, Cameron, Clegg and Miliband. To say nothing of the gathering of other, distinctly minor, ministers. He may have a point. The three weeks of co...