Lenin is said to have declared that the way to crush the bourgeoisie was to grind them between the millstones of inflation and taxation. T...

‘Near-death experiences’, which have become a staple of popular journalism, were never heard of (or at least I had never heard of them) unti...

On Wednesday (14th November) a book was published about the life of the late General Sir Richard McCreery, the father of my colleague Dr Cha...

text of a letter This is an account of the conversation about Charles McCreery’s sister Sarah, which I had with Sir George Joy. Sir Geor...

It is a feature of the downfall of Western civilisation that above-average ability is discriminated against; this is expressed in the form o...

The time it takes to diagnose dementia is to be slashed from 18 months to just three following a scientific breakthrough. David Cameron will...

Charles Morgan (1894-1958) was a writer who expressed a kind of psychology that is suppressed or outcast in the modern world. This comes acr...

text of a reply to someone who recently wrote to me, having read the Dutch edition of The Human Evasion (‘Vlucht in de Medemens’) some year...

The provision of free state education used to be described as creating a ‘level playing field’. However, it may be wondered whether the real...

Critics have accused Ed Miliband of ‘class war’ tactics after he devoted most of a party political broadcast to the fact he went to a compre...