copy of a letter to a voluntary worker There are fundamental ways in which the modern ideology is against us; in its hatred of capitalism an...

In a recent newspaper there was a piece asserting, ‘you are playing Russian roulette if you take such and such drugs without having them pre...

copy of a letter to a philosopher It is really terrible that with the appalling legislation that is constantly being made, which in many cas...

The Daily Mail (and no doubt others as well) has got the idea that some health and behavioural problems, such as drug-taking, may be genet...

In David Willetts’s book The Pinch (Atlantic Books, 2010), it is suggested that baby boomers might feel an idealistic satisfaction in accep...

Motorists hit by the soaring cost of petrol could be spared the 1p a litre rise in fuel duty due to come into force in April. Sharing the p...

Of course all discussion about pensions these days is about who really ‘needs’ or ‘deserves’ anything. Of what relevance is it that some de...

From time to time, pieces of research are published by universities, or statements are made by journalists, suggesting that compassion is a...

The Mail led the way in highlighting how NICE, the Government’s drugs rationing body, was denying life-prolonging treatments to cancer patie...

The Great Pensions ‘Swindle’ by Arthur Seldon (*) was published in 1970. I have never found this book at all easy to read, as Arthur Seldo...