Dame Janet Vaughan [1] , like Mary Adams [2] , was a Fellow Traveller, as communist sympathisers were then called. In Mary Adams’s environme...

My attempts to get any freedom of action in my life have always been strenuously opposed; when I was at school or university, taking exams i...

Sir George Joy and W.H Salter, who at first supported me (at least within normal social parameters) were both relatively cut off from the fu...

copy of a letter to an academic philosopher As usual, I was not shortlisted for the Cambridge Professorship in philosophy, which would have ...

Tendentious stuff continues to pour out of universities based on the unfounded assumption that there is no such thing as innate ability or ...

I would like to comment on the word ‘influential’ in one of my testimonials , in the phrase ‘influential published work on abnormal perceptu...

As Margaret Thatcher is alleged to have said: ‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money’. But by th...

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 ...