Just in case it may ever be used as an excuse for not giving me a Professorship that I do not like attending conferences, may I say that the...

Respect for individual liberty is protected, if at all, by the market forces of a capitalist society; when that protection is eroded by soci...

I have observed that in my experience the human race seems to like it best if the socially agreed view of the situation not merely distorts ...

It is starting to be admitted that a high proportion of the cleverest do not make it, in the sense of becoming members of the immensely expa...

Another book ( Outliers – The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell) has been published on how there is no such thing as genius or ‘a born s...

To revert to the question of why everyone has always opposed me. Well, unfortunately, as it seems, I represent a number of things that the ...

copy of a letter to an academic You asked why the entire academic population, under the direction of Rosalind Heywood, wanted to ensure tha...

The state pension is to rise by the (unrealistically low) official rate of inflation. ‘Pension credit’ is also to increase, and the Chancel...

Copy of a letter sent several weeks ago by my colleague Dr Charles McCreery to a presenter on Radio Oxford, to which he has had no reply. I ...

As quite a young child I was under the impression that it was a basic principle of accepted morality and legislation that an individual'...