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What makes a human life valuable? Greg Epstein, a humanist chaplain at Harvard, recalls discussing this question with a group of students at the...
This has been a disorienting year. North Korean troops are on European soil, helping to invade an EU applicant country. A convicted fraudster,...
It’s Christmas time, and that means the annual debate about whether we can take Jesus out of Yuletide once and for all – and just hand the festival...
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General election 2024 has produced one outcome but two contradictory narratives. According to one version of the truth, anyone under 35 has been...
The device on which you may be reading this owes its existence to an experiment roughly 55 years ago. A team of university researchers, with some...
It’s hard to make a TV ad that is funny while also communicating an important public service message. So well done the Electoral Commission on its...
This column prides itself on taking you to places where others fear to venture. Today we plumb new depths, literally, as we go down the toilet....
It seems a little perverse to be celebrating International Men’s Day next week. American voters have again rejected a woman candidate for president...
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Have you ever gotten yourself into an argument with someone because the issue at stake is just theoretical to you whereas it’s very personal to...
Democracy has evolved over the last 300 years to give more people representation in decision-making. Excluded populations — including women,...
It has become clear the US presidential election is an unfair contest. This has nothing to do with campaign finances, media bias or judicial...
There are few places where you can be in the company of strangers for a while without someone glancing at a smartphone. Fewer still where you can...
You rarely hear the term “Judeo-Christian values” these days, but in the decades immediately after the second World War it was widely used as...
Recent surveys indicate a rise in “news avoidance”. The latest Reuters Institute poll found four in 10 people worldwide said they sometimes or...
The first Monday of September sees people return in their droves to workplaces. For many of us this means just one thing: getting on to airline...