Light from the Orkneys: Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown The Orkneys produced two remarkable 20th century poets, for both...
Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology Scientists sometimes complain about the introduction of religious ideas into...
Ideological weddings: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue New rights and new lefts in Britain as both the...
Local or global? Network economics and the new economy Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous...
The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
Other Britains: One size doesn’t fit all Not all political thinking is about either individual liberty and...
Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? Considered thinkers from Mandelbrot ('fractals') or Keillor ('Lake Wobegon Days')...
The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate Why was it argued that the poor could not vote...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
It's a mad, bad, wonderful world: A celebration of commercial diversity In some countries people haggle incessantly, in others to haggle...