Extract from my book Letters from Exile : Essentially, there are two conflicting fields of morality or idealism. The first is old-fashioned ...

This is a piece I wrote in 1978 about a BBC language course. Apart from the fact that there is no longer an "East Germany", it cou...

Another book to which I am unable to publish a riposte, on a topic on which I have been prevented for decades from expressing my views: IQ: ...

Headline and lead from a recent article in the Sunday Times by Peter Millar: The gullible age Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion sold...

A piece I wrote some years ago Recently I was interviewed by an undergraduate for Cherwell [the Oxford University student newspaper]. He fi...

The fiction continues that the grammar schools provided a way in which bright working class children could rise in the world. Thinking back ...

copy of a letter You once quoted to me the received view that very early indications of precocity are meaningless, because ‘there are all so...

In Antony Flew’s book The Politics of Procrustes (Temple Smith 1981, p.21), he defines some ideas of equality, that is, ‘proposed ideals of...

I am not concerned that Society should try to do me good; I should only like it to try to do me less harm.

Before, during and immediately after 1905, [Einstein] was incapable of securing an academic post. In fact, he didn’t need one. He was perfec...