Consumerism has boomed on debt. The huge profits of banks spring from massive borrowing too. In what are often referred to as "normal times", this is only sensible
Recently, I spent an afternoon talking with someone about homosexuality. We had been brought together because of our opposing views. I am pro-gay, pro-civil partnerships, and pro-inclusion on gay adoption.
The personal quandaries thrown up by social-networking sites seem to be escalating by the day. What do you do when, say, a work colleague - whom you see across the
There are many ways of describing childhood. I have just been reading Adam Phillips's Going Sane, in which he talks about growing up in terms of battling the
How should a democracy be judged? Some argue that the freedom of the press is the determining issue; others, the probity of its politicians; others again, its citizens' happiness.
