The Times (as well as a slew of other newspapers) reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams is complaining that financiers have, in general, failed to feel repentance for the ‘excesses of the boom that led to financial me…

In the BBC Radio program Jeopardising Justice (here) Helena Kennedy QC spoke about the rise of ‘the victims’ movement’. The 1970s saw a legal reform that marked a watershed in the treatment of victims throughout the judicial system. Once ma…

An article in the Times argues that life extension will bring us problems: long-lived people will bankrupt the NHS, pensions would become expensive, the pension age would need to be changed, there would be a pressure for resources and life …

       During the summer, much  research about the nature of attraction between opposite sexes has been published in various newspapers. I have tried to make some sense of them. Here I hope to show …

Conservative politicians claimed yesterday that there are not enough intensive care beds in the UK to cope with the surge in demand that may occur over winter if the flu pandemic re-emerges. They have called on the government to increase in…

A headline in the Daily Mail from yesterday highlights the cost of over treatment for extremely premature and marginally viable infants.     “Parents cause infant to suffer by forcing doctors to give futile treatment”. Des…

The British Medical Association has called for a complete ban on alcohol advertising. Wait for the knees to jerk: calls deriding the ‘nanny state’ and its paternalism will soon follow. One common theme, I predict, will be that the recommend…

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Science or Philosophy University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy, Future of Humanity Institute, James Martin 21st Century School Grade 7: £28,839 – £38,757 per annum (as at 1 Octo…

The moral debate about whether Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted for the Lockerbie bombing,  should have been released has now morphed into a political debate about who wanted what and who said what to whom: http://www.guardian…

Should we use drugs to prolong loving relationships?  Should we use drugs to weaken traumatic memories?  Research Associate David Edmonds’ article on enhancement for Prospect magazine is available online.  The articl…