Occupation: Journalist Birth: December 27, 1946
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Mar….
The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end..
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When s….
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay….
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes..
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability..
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plu….
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it ….
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Juda….
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition..
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies..
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness t….
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions cri….
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying..
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious..
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal..
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in….
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying..
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners….
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compare….
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government….