detail from: Hieronymus Bosch (attrib), Temptation of St Anthony St Anthony of Egypt is considered to be the first of the ‘Desert Fathe...

A version of this post was first published in 2007. It has been republished in the light of the Gosport hospital case . The Daily Mail h...

In the following extract* from a paper, philosopher Thomas Nagel expresses a libertarian attitude to taxation. Some would describe taxatio...

A version of this post was first published in 2007. It has been republished in the light of the Gosport hospital case . In 1989, there was...

Statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen (1833 – 1891) The statue of Alfred The Great (shown above) located in Wantage, Oxfordshire was ...

One of the strongest taboos is that on the concept of being frustrated by society. It is absolutely impossible, according to the ideology, f...

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) W. Somerset Maugham was one of Britain’s most popular fiction writers during the 1930s. He is somewhat...

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and ...

A couple of years ago there was a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled ‘Intelligence — born smart, born equal, born different’. According to ...

Winston Churchill c. 1898 How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. [...] I counted the...