50 years ago people used to talk about ‘getting one’s eye in’ when playing a game. This was associated with scoring more freely. My father...

Fresco by Giotto, Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi According to the Synoptic Gospels, the risen Jesus who was seen by his disciples w...

Most positions that disagree with feminism argue either that women are inferior, or that they are equal to, but different from, men. A thi...

Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939) Every original worker in intellectual fields, every man who makes some new thing, is certain to arouse host...

The Cloister and the Hearth is a nineteenth century novel written by Charles Reade. It was once considered a classic of literature but is n...

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 ...