A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
John Gray reflects on why the advance of capitalism is not - as is widely believed - inevitable. He
Adam Gopnik identifies four different types of anxiety that afflict modern people and suggests ways
Adam Gopnik draws a poignant lesson on the nature of true love from the eyesore of love locks in Par
Adam Gopnik explains why the English are better at watching football than they are playing it and wh
Adam Gopnik thinks we fail too often to let people die with dignity at the end of their lives and be
Adam Gopnik thinks there's a simple reason for the recent findings that short men enjoy stable marri
Lisa Jardine reflects on the rich history of time-pieces and the power of clocks and watches. "Each
This season's fashion for red prompts Lisa Jardine to reflect on the past power of the colour."In Tu
Lisa Jardine says while documenting and commemorating the First World War we should not lose sight o
Lisa Jardine explores how fiction can be more useful than fact in helping us understand the past.She
Will Self takes on one of the nation's best loved figures, George Orwell.....and braces himself for
Will Self reflects on comedy, asking why we laugh and whether there's too much of the wrong type of
Will Self reflects on the power of modern day consumption and the effect it is having on us.Producer
Will Self offers a weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Will Self reflects on what the changing nature of utopias says about us, from Thomas More's sixteent
Republican or royalist we all need something or someone in which to invest our loyalty. Will Self re
Some critics of religion see having faith as being childish. But John Gray argues that believing tha
Philosopher and author John Gray argues that the Sunni extremist group Isis (Islamic State in Iraq a
AL Kennedy argues that the British have much to gain from - in the words of Robert Burns - "seeing o
It's a tale of "shadowy white-hatted hackers, more shadowy black-hatted hackers and the possibility
