A young graduate who had read English at Oxford, and with whom I was corresponding, once referred to jokes about ageing. Certainly they are ...

It has been estimated that the proportion of a person’s intelligence which is inherited from his or her parents is upward of 50 percent . ...

The idea that ability is partly inherited continues to be controversial, for reasons that seem to have more to do with ideology than scient...

Good parents In order to be a socially approved parent it is necessary not to ‘push’ your child. There is a social myth to the effect that ...

One weakness of the pursuit of creativity is that it focuses attention on what seems to you to be significant (which admittedly is the only ...

My colleague Charles McCreery has recently published his book on out-of-the-body experiences. This is available from Amazon. Here are lin...

Here is another extract from Ayn Rand’s book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal . Rand expresses scepticism about the ‘common good’, a concept po...

Ayn Rand was the pen name of Alice O’Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum), a Russian-American writer and philosopher. Her most notable w...

My new book, The Corpse and the Kingdom , is now available from Amazon. Below is an extract. SECOND INTRODUCTORY SCENARIO What you...

Extract from chapter ‘Dozing in the staff room’, in: It’s your time you’re wasting: A teacher’s tales of classroom hell , by Frank Chalk (...