Morality of the tribe
Video of a debate I chaired at the How the Light Gets In festival with Natalie Cargill, David Miller and Peter Tatchell.
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Tag: Ethics
A timely biography of Kierkegaard
Just as Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings were meant to enable the reader to understand different modes of existence from the inside, Carlisle’s biography takes us inside Kierkegaard’s troubled, complicated life, portraying a man who both compels and repels in turn.
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We need a green diet that’s not half-baked
Blog for the Food Ethics Council on the merits and flaws in EAT-Lancet’s ‘planetary health diet’.
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Health, housing and happiness
The flourishing of pensioners today is not biological destiny, but the fruit of decades of public policy.
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John Humphrys’s dismal legacy
After 32 years on BBC Radio Four’s flagship news programme, Today, John Humphrys has told the Daily Mail that he is “assuming” he’ll leave the programme this year. Unfortunately, his legacy will be a style of interviewing that has made our news media less, not better equipped to give our politicians the scrutiny and interrogation a healthy democracy needs…
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