Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.

Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.