Michael Nugent

Is it more likely that gods exist or do not exist? This is the third of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic? This is the second of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

What types of gods do people believe in? This is the first of a series of short posts about whether gods exist and why the question is an important one.

Some close-up photos of flowers from the Botanic Gardens today.

Four billion people, or more than half the world’s population, live in cities. More than five hundred cities have more than a million people each, and 33 have more than ten million each. But what cities are the happiest?

Pakistan is still persecuting atheists and religious minorities with blasphemy charges, often trumped up because of personal disputes, which can result in life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Fifty years ago today I watched England face Brazil in the Mexico 1970 World Cup. The game had everything: that save by Gordon Banks, that tackle by Bobby Moore, that miss by Jeff Astle, that goal by Jairzinho, and the iconic image of Moore and Pelé swapping shirts. But what has happened to the England […]

The five Nordic countries (Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland) are consistently at or near the top of happiness studies. Why is this? The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that the reasons include:

I’m very sad to hear that Steve Priest has died aged 72. He was bass player with 1970s glam rockers the Sweet who I loved as a child. The first records that I bought were by Alice Cooper, Slade, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Mud, Wizzard, and Gary Glitter.

I started this blog in June 2008, twelve years ago this week. In my first post I made the case for atheism being important. I wrote: