From time to time someone complains that the state pension, together with the means-tested part, is becoming less and less adequate to cover...

Thomas Jefferson (one of the Founding Fathers of the United States) said, in effect, that the first duty of a government was not to let the ...

Apparently, if meltdown cannot be averted at one of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, radioactive material will spew up into the atmosp...

The transfer of resources from populations with higher IQs to those with lower IQs continues. Herewith two examples: (1) £900 of higher uni...

copy of a letter to a philosopher There go on being terrible developments which directly damage us, or show underlying attitudes which are h...

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...