This is a tale of punctuation. A small one — a dash, to be precise. The em dash, for those still confusing it with the hyphen. A mark so...

As a distributor of The Light newspaper, one of the ironies of the heckling I sometimes hear is the accusation of fascism by people who behave like fascists. Similarly ironic is...

If I had to name one thing as the worst attribute of modern humanity, it would be consumerism. If I could name two, the second would be our need...

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” Thomas Paine They said it was for safety. They said it was for order. They said...

Charlie Kirk’s death is a game-changer. It really shouldn’t be because people are dying every day due to the mindlessness of this game, but for whatever reason, being gunned...

“They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain.”  J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye With all the hullabaloo about President Donald Trump’s...

The crisis in science that undermines research is widely underestimated, largely because irreproducible results, ideological bias, conflicts of interest, and fraud are typically discussed in isolation—without recognizing their cumulative...

I think I have enough sense to know that Trump may not be the saviour many think he is. But I do have to admit that, for me, the...

Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning, I exult in the sea’s silent roar. It extinguishes...

Artificial Intelligence, transhumanism and technology will easily take over the world because people never think about ethics while doing whatever job they have that supports all this insanity. Ethics?...

“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”...

Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with...

An interesting course of events is about to take place. We are all about to enter a time machine and return to the era before photography was invented. This...

My personal experiences seem to lag a bit behind the general population. I have not, until recently, noticed too many people succumbing to strange cancers. Now, quite a few...

For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official US state, it...

As India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on 15 August, the tricolour will flutter proudly across the nation. Speeches will echo the triumphs of freedom, resilience and progress. But...

Remember the primary way people used to sell things? Particularly the tinkers and snake-oil guys. They would try to trick you into believing what they were selling was something...

An op-ed in the New York Times is calling for a “new definition of death” so that we can increase the number of available donor organs. I’m not exaggerating,...

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.” Hannah Arendt The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on...

Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it...