Occupation: Journalist Birth: December 27, 1946
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main reli….
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress ….
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death..
Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else w….
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the ri….
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith..
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….
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compare….
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….
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in….
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..