We are, it has been said repeatedly, in unprecedented times. Even if this novel coronavirus is not the foretold invisible harbinger of our doom as a species, yet still many have already been imprinted traumatically by what is, by what…

  Nietzsche called it over a hundred years ago when he echoed previous philosopher’s concerns that ”God is dead”. This thought, which had emerged earlier in the 1850s, presaged the elevation by the Enlightenment of the worship of science above…

What women never mention is that they are forever casting runes, the way the salt flecks the pastry flour, the way the apple peels fall to the table, the way the children’s shoes are arranged in the hallway, all these…

A brief musing on Surrogacy in general, with particular reference to Full Surrogacy Now : Feminism Against Family, a recently published book by Sophie Lewis

Taber school in Barcelona, removing fairytales and books from young children’s bookshelves, and no doubt to be followed by other schools doing likewise, is a deeply ideological act, and part of a wider process of historical revisionism that infantilises us…

Discussion with Branko Malic on issues brought to mind after the dreadful massacre at Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch

A great gulf has become apparent, ever wider in the last decades. On the one side there are those who believe in the existence of an a priori essential Unity, a Oneness which divided and from which separation emerged form…

The voice is that of a priest in ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ by James Joyce. He is trying to convey to his congregation what an eternity in Hell would be like. It is an impressive…

In which we discuss various matters in and around an academic paper published in 2012 on the topic of After Birth Abortion. Paper – https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261 Transcription 51 -54 minutes – (audio interference) ”The principle they took as a starting point…