A shock! I haven't delivered an extra in ages.

Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture. - Iris Murdoch This quote doesn't come from...

Maggie O'Farrell's latest novel is an imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and family, focusing on the death of the son, Hamnet.

I have found that when I mention my passion for theatre, on occasion I have been met with the accusation of elitism.

The course of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK has brought to the fore the problems inherent in our traditional ways of handling risk.

There's another scarce resource we seem eager to seek: empathy.

Schopenhauer seemed to find the contemplative side immensely beneficial too - in a way related to Murdoch's concept of unselfing.

What paths we've walked, me and the dog, since this all began. The seasons changing and the miles clocking up.

The past is another country. And we have to be careful when we go there.

We can seek out experiences of this spaciousness by contemplating art or nature, or indeed, by considering virtue.

Concepts, by their nature it seems, have a magnetic effect. Memories and emotions are drawn to them like iron filings.

The more unequal a society, the higher the level of mental health problems, obesity, drug use and homicide.

I have a feeling that life is lived not on the grand stage of the abstract and the general, but somewhere in between.

OK. I did say I wanted to write about moral saints... So, this takes me back to thinking about Dan Kaufman and Massimo Pigliucci's...

Home Sweet Home for Mr and Ms Wren.

But they look happy! I mean, they're having sex! There's grass and trees and birdsong!

I don't get how atoms, fields, waves or strings can be building blocks of values.

If we assume that people are naturally good, and they behave badly, what has corrupted them?

We cannot get outside this bone-cage skull nor look from eyes other than our own.

You can't extract a theory of morality from a past culture without taking into account its cultural setting, the embedded and assumed values