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in Central England, The United Kingdom

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British born, HongKong-based, father-of-two, teacher-of-many, former police officer!

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My debut novel, Ramus, got good reviews so I wrote a short prequel called Training Day, which is also on Amazon. The full sequel, Fractured, is in progress and will be released in 2020, nope 2021, nope 2022, maybe 2023 lol.

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“As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?”
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“No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”
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“and saying “cheer up” had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”
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“There were perhaps one hundred billion galaxies in the universe, and each galaxy contained a hundred billion stars. How many of those stars had planets, and how many planets had life? Panspermia, the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe, was no longer merely speculation. The belief that there was life only on this pale blue dot, in this insignificant solar system, now seemed as absurd as the ancients’ naive belief that the sun and the stars revolved around the earth. The”
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