Indeed Miller’s ego is astonishingly large, possibly larger than the unappreciative country he’s partially renounced. On reading the BBC interview, not the first time he’s moaned at length, he clearly regrets a life in the arts, rather than his initial selection of science or medicine. He would have preferred recognition for his scientific work, which is not a terribly logical approach to the honours system in my view.

This quote from The Humanist also exemplifies a “Pseuds’ Corner” approach to what is for most people a straightforward concept:

“Jonathan Miller: Let me say right at the outset that I’ve always been very reluctant to use the word “atheist,” not because I’m embarrassed or ashamed of it but I think that this view scarcely deserves a title. No one has a special name for not believing in witches–I’m not an “a-hexist”–and I don’t have a word for not believing in ghosts or anything of that sort. So the idea of there being a special name for what I’ve never had–which is a belief in God–seems to me to be odd, to say the least.

Still, my attitude toward the notion of a supernatural being is identical to that of those who do call themselves atheists….”

SIGH!