In Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children , when the family becomes worse off and leaves their salubrious house in a London suburb, the life wh...

Bush House in London Paul Kriwaczek’s book In Search of Zarathustra , about the prophet Zoroaster, refers to the overthrow of the Shah of...

H.G. Wells included a ‘Declaration on the Rights of Man’ in his book The New World Order , published in 1940. This contains, for example, th...

In C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength , the druid Merlin, having been woken from over a thousand years of suspended animation, is talking to...

Herbert Spencer on the idea that tax erodes freedom, from his Principles of Ethics : Money taken from the citizen, not to pay the costs of ...

Were we to find a chemical in the water, or in food, that was damaging children’s growth and their brains worldwide, and thus their intellec...

Herbert Spencer’s essay ‘From freedom to bondage’ contains the following reflections on socialism. [Compulsory co-operation], still exempli...

Oriel College’s Rhodes Building, with statue of Cecil Rhodes Speaking at the ceremony to swear in Professor Louise Richardson as [Oxford...

There was a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed elephants, and Little Toomai was the hero of it all. And the ...

The parents of a child genius with an IQ similar to Einstein’s have said she is ‘perfectly ordinary’. Ophelia Spracklen, 12, scored a stunni...