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Training the crosshairs of reason on the broadcast output of Thought For The Day from BBC Radio 4, which frequently features nonsensical claims and other affronts to reason with no apparent accountability. SecondThought aims to provide that accountability. secondthoughtfortheday.com

  1. Giles Fraser - scything through an awful muddle from Kew Vicar on technology

    10/24/2025

    Giles Fraser - scything through an awful muddle from Kew Vicar on technology

    West London vicar broadcasts hapless rumination on power cuts, the worship of technology, 'older gods' and 'human pleasures'. It's quite the cluster.

    36 min
  2. Theos think-tank leader, Chine McDonald, demonstrates poor grasp of fact, reason and belief

    10/09/2025

    Theos think-tank leader, Chine McDonald, demonstrates poor grasp of fact, reason and belief

    Chine McDonald dabbles in subjects about which she clearly knows little (reason and faith in the Christian church) before regurgitating suspicious survey data as fact without a moment's hesitation.

    53 min
  3. Priest claims England's Catholic roots have prevented English dictatorship

    08/18/2025

    Priest claims England's Catholic roots have prevented English dictatorship

    Notes on Thoughts for the Day from 21-28 April. Tilby doesn't disappoint: revealing just how her English and Anglican exceptionalism have impaired her ability to think. Jennifer Smith joins in with incoherent statements about faith moments and a blatant example of belief presented as fact. Join us in the week that saw the end of Easter and the end of a Pope.

    34 min
  4. Angela Tilby - Welcome to an Anglican drought of reason from the ever-reliable Canon Tilby

    08/07/2025

    Angela Tilby - Welcome to an Anglican drought of reason from the ever-reliable Canon Tilby

    A real car crash broadcast from Tilby. So bad you should definitely listen to the original on BBC Sounds. It's a masterclass in why faith should never outweigh curiosity.

    13 min
  5. Michael Hurley - Pointless rhetorical tour of some literary logical flaws

    07/28/2025

    Michael Hurley - Pointless rhetorical tour of some literary logical flaws

    Not a single factual error. That's quite an achievement in this company!

    13 min
  6. Throwback review - Retired priest was worse than we thought at the time

    07/05/2025

    Throwback review - Retired priest was worse than we thought at the time

    Angela Tilby demonstrates that she can plumb depths that you'd not initially appreciated. Welcome to the straw man episode in which Tilby invents history. In a throwback episode we fact-check our review of Angela's broadcast of 11 April 25.

    28 min
  7. Lucy Winkett - Anglican rector boldly leaps the boundaries of sense and coherence

    06/25/2025

    Lucy Winkett - Anglican rector boldly leaps the boundaries of sense and coherence

    The Easter effect claims another victim among the Christian TftD presenting community.

    22 min
  8. Jasvir Singh - In honour of Jon Humphrys, we just named an error

    06/17/2025

    Jasvir Singh - In honour of Jon Humphrys, we just named an error

    Singh does well but failed to distinguish Sikhism from not-Islam and we're likely a tad unfair to saddle him with the inaugural use of the Humphrys Kumbaya Flagrancy

    8 min
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Training the crosshairs of reason on the broadcast output of Thought For The Day from BBC Radio 4, which frequently features nonsensical claims and other affronts to reason with no apparent accountability. SecondThought aims to provide that accountability. secondthoughtfortheday.com

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