That great French export to our country, Eric Cantona, once inadvertently created a lot of interest round here in seagulls by producing a...

We die twice; once when we actually die, and once when those who remember us die. As a former soldier, I have developed a little informal...

I first came across the concept of love as a phenomenon that reached beyond mere families, when my parents came home one day, rather...

If you had a load of money to burn, and used some of it to take a sophisticated genetic test, the chances are that you would discover...

You certainly don’t need to be taking any lectures on the underlying fear in all women from a privileged, middle-class, middle-aged man...

I’m 61, and I’m in love with a tee-shirt. I mean love in the sense of ‘being deeply committed and connected to someone or something’...

One spring morning in 1832, a political economist from Oxford University found himself staring at a bunch of cattle on a piece of local...

You know the deal. We need to shoot the crocodile nearest the boat. If we were not locked down or, as the government prefers us to think...

We’ve been having a series of events at home to celebrate the accession of Priti Patel, our Home Secretary, to the status of life member...

Some time in 1958, Chairman Mao established his ‘Four Pests’ campaign, ordering the extinction of rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows....

‘Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine’, said Henry David Thoreau. He said lots more about civil disobedience, but just...

On Bonfire Day twenty-eight years ago, I accidentally killed a lapwing, something that I have regretted ever since. It was on Bodmin...

One of the tiny costs of freedom is knowing just what to do with all that free speech we have. Please hold that thought for a second....

According to the Today Programme, there is a new post in the British army called SO1 Unacceptable Behaviours. SO1 being the name for a...

It’s one of those things you know before you know. A cold hand grips your intestines and chills them. You feel slightly sick before you...

Me and Graham are thinking of moving in together. Oh, don’t take on so. The signs have been there for weeks, months even. Those furtive...

‘More often than not’ said the moral philosopher Peter Singer, ‘there is a compromise between ethics and expediency.’ Too bloody right...

You can have enough Laurel and Hardy. If the world is divided into those who appreciate their comedy genius, and those who believe their...

A single moment fifty odd years ago convinces me that ESP is a thing, a real thing. And it has everything to do with walnut whips. When I...

Become an activist again. Yes, you. Fifty years ago or so, moderate people on the left, the right or even the centre started to give up...