A book on “parenting” has been written, telling people how to help their child continue to tolerate his or her life in the children’s prison...

First introductory scenario You are perceiving things, but the status of your perceptions is entirely indeterminate. You do not know the sig...

Some comments from a member of the education establishment: I want to narrow the disparities between people’s attainment, between the highly...

I am giving a seminar in Oxford on the 29th, entitled "Existential psychology and early Christianity". Details here .

It seems that 2008 is National Reading Year: I wonder whether this is because the disfavouring of the ‘middle class’ that has proceeded apac...

According to the Daily Mail (28 March), over the last 8 years 10 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money has been spent on a campaign of working...

Joan Bakewell on her grammar school (Stockport High School for Girls): The school was relentlessly competitive and selective. ... The six ho...

Watching modern television while I use my exercise machine is certainly giving me a feeling for the contemporary landscape. It is no wonder ...

Daily Mail 14 February 2008: Another man has been beaten and left for dead after politely asking a gang to stop urinating into his garden. ...

Compassion It is alleged that a wicked judge, sentencing a man who had stolen a loaf, replied to his explanation that he had to live, ‘Je n...