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In the studio. He didn't contact them; they contacted him. He's one of these rent-an-experts the BBC always drags in when something like this happens. As I said in a previous post, he says he was conducting an exercise 'based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations...

No he hasn't. He simply made a throwaway comment on a radio station which conspiracy theorists have twisted out of all proportion. Think about it rationally: Either he was involved in the 'conspiracy', in which case he wouldn't have made the comment, or he he didn't think there was one. The guy...

If you listen to it carefully, you'll see that isn't what he says. He says he was running an exercise involving those stations. He might well have been considering every staion in central London. Also. the conspiracy theorists are going on about him having a thousand people in the stations and...

Synchronicity obviously :p Have you looked at Visor's website. They're a company specialising in crisis management. If they're a successful one, they're probably running these exercises every day of the week.

It's patently nonsense of the first order, predicated upn the idea that these people were so thick you could get them to do anything you wanted. Still, I guess if MI6 could murder Princess Diana...

Just as a point of interest, almost exactly the opposite is true: http://opioids.com/afghanistan/opiumcrop.html http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121103_afghan_poppy.html

That's true, but it would make morality based upon need which would be a very tricky path to negotiate, because you would then have to entertain the possibility that addicts were less immoral than other purchasers of illicit drugs because they had a genuine need for them and yet addicts are...

Which is the case with most commodities of course. Still, compared to the activities involved with the criminal cartels, multinationals would be the lesser of two evils and presumably henrymiller's mates would have the option of getting fair-trade cocaine to go with their coffee...

Reply to henrymiller The petrochemical example was the the first thing that came to mind. Perhaps a better analogy would be that because some clothing is produced in apalling conditions is not a reason for not wearing clothes, although it could be an argument not to buy clothes produced under...

The concept of 'using drugs' is so abstract as to be morally neutral. Of course what, I assume, you mean by using drugs (getting twisted) is categorised by some people as misusing them which does carry negative moral connotations. However, I think that in order to morally assess drug taking...

True enough, but the fact that it will give fuel to the fire of certain anti-Western factions is surely a good enough reason not to publish it? After all, we all know that the only reason these pictures were published was to get people like Luka (who I'm assuming from his comment doesn't usually...

Mark, can you just give us a point of clarification? First I'd like to know what you understand by theism, because I would have thought that the answer to this: Is simply any of the many religions which do not worship a single omnipotent creator.

Autophoron There's not much else I can say about this before we just start going round in circles. We obviously disagree about some of the mechanisms in Spinoza (e.g. the conatus), but seem more broadly in accord than I initially thought. As you admit that and I agree with you that he doesn't...

Autophoron I hope this makes some sort of sense, I hadn’t really finished it when your reply to Mark made me strip various bits out and add others. I have a feeling that the problem I am having with this is summed up by this quote Which I agree with, but don’t really see where it gets us...

Autophoron There's not much point me giving a knee-jerk reaction to your last post as I need to think about what you're saying. It would be helpful if you could clarify what you mean by diachrony, as I still do not understand how this applies to Spinoza's ontology. Still, one answer and one...

I wouldn't quibble with this; if it were not the case, philosophy would have ended with Spinoza. The question is whether modern thinkers are correct to deny transcendence in Spinoza's philosophical project as opposed to the system as it stands, and so what you call homogenizing is actually a...

I'm not at all sure why you would want to say this of Spinoza. Given the immanence of Substance and the parallelism of the attributes, there is no 'spiritual' as such. The two adequate types of knowledge in Spinoza may be different ways of acquiring knowledge (i.e. the application of reason or...

Continuum are supposed to be bringing it out at the end of July. Whether it arrives on schedule is another matter...

Not spent much time in Europe have you Dominic? Many European countries have absorbed diverse immigrants within the period of modern history and muslims have been arriving for ages.

Well, his argument was slightly more sophisticated than that (but only slightly). I agree with you about the logic of his position, I just found the deafening silence coming from certain sections of the media amusing given their horror at Ken's faux pas.