Recent remarks by the Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow, express the warmest goodwill towards unpaid carers who help elderly relatives. B...

As has been pointed out, pensioners are fair game for anything because they constitute a population with an above-average IQ. At the start o...

copy of a letter to a salaried philosopher I suppose a Philosophy Department would be the most obvious thing for my incipient (squashed and ...

Andrew Lansley last night warned that NHS spending may have to rise for ever, simply to keep pace with rising life expectancy. The Health S...

notes on photos of my parents 1. My father missed getting a First by one mark. There was an easy explanation of a shortfall in his marks, bu...

My parents were great people (‘great’ in the old-fashioned sense) who had terrible lives. Like me, they were models of what the modern world...

There are complaints that George Osborne’s ‘Austerity Budget’ fails to provide sufficient protection for ‘the most vulnerable’ sections of t...

Melanie Phillips complains of the loss of moral principles in modern society. Two ... incidents happened recently. A 79-year-old woman has d...

Thank you for writing, and saying I think Celia Green is one of the great modern British writers – in the perfect world she would be a hous...

I am amazed at the antagonism to capitalism that is expressed in sympathy with the anti-capitalism protesters. Capitalism is the only thing ...