This was first published in September. I am re-posting it in connection with an article about a new book on near-death experiences which app...

text of a letter to an academic Throughout my life my problems have all arisen from the same cause: the hostility of the increasingly domi...

In view of the current debate about the possible cutting of benefits to pensioners, I thought it worthwhile re-posting this piece from 2010....

The late Professor Hans Eysenck once told me about an experiment in which a population of rats was divided into ‘bright’ and ‘dull’ on some ...

There is a cruel pretence that the outcast professor (me) is not suffering from being deprived of an institutional (i.e. hotel) environment ...

Recent statements by Michael Gove (the Education Secretary) and Andrew Hamilton (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University), among others, seem t...

A property has just come on the market in Cuddesdon which would be suitable for us. I have previously suggested that buying a house in th...

Recently, both Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have raised the question of innate IQ, breaking the usual taboo on the topic. Mr Johnson has...

Further to my post about the Hibbert Journal , one sign of the sea change that came over everybody’s outlook is provided by the fact that al...

My colleague Dr Charles McCreery recently mentioned to me something interesting about the Hibbert Journal (a philosophy journal), which he ...