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It’s such a relief finally to understand one of the great moral questions of our time. And it’s thanks to Tony Blair, whose intellectual and...

It’s time to look again at some of the underlying principles of Darwinian thought, particularly the concept of survival of the fittest. My c...

I’m toying with the idea of founding a new religious sect. Looking around the world, I often feel that there just aren’t enough of them yet....

There are moments when I realise that I’m living through an event that takes me beyond the mere everyday and belongs more the great current ...

It was in a slightly shamefaced way that I admitted to my mother that Danielle and I had been to see Avatar at the weekend. For the second ...

Great piece in The Guardian today. It seems that physical exercise, and in particular running, can actually regenerate brain cells. In othe...

There’s little that is duller these days than travelling by air. Any glamour there may ever have been has long since evaporated. The low-cos...