LISTEN Andrew Brown and Daniel Trilling discuss the cult of Richard Dawkins The other day I wrote something to upset the followers of Richard Dawkins and one of them tracked me down to a pub. I had been asked to give a talk to a group of āSkeptics in the Pubā about whether there are […]
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