The communists thought of politeness as a product of bourgeois fetishism. By now, rudeness has become the norm in this country. Agents of ...

It is amazing how completely the modern ideology has wiped out the worldview that was present approximately at the peak of the British Empir...

In an earlier post I discussed the recent case of a mother deemed ‘too stupid’ to look after her own child, and expressed surprise that eve...

Certain works of fiction, significant during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, are no longer read much, but contain elements of a certain ou...

I see that family courts are now to be open to journalists, instead of secret, which may conceivably be a consequence in part of our drawing...

Would a court have decided a 24-year-old single mother was ‘too stupid’ to care for her three-year-old daughter if this wasn’t so? Accordin...

At my last seminar an Iraqi lady commented that the way we had been treated sounded like what happened in an authoritarian regime, only wher...

Susan Boyle ... was admitted to a private clinic under the Mental Health Act by doctors worried about her state of mind on Sunday. Professo...

There seem to be several horrors in the papers every day, which we are not able to speak out against, except in ways that attract no publici...

Various people recently have been expressing opinions about whether or not intelligence is innate. It may be wondered why this would matter ...