The Philosophical Muser

In his latest Guardian column , the perpetually befuddled George Monbiot wants to tell us that Greece's current problems are actually...

You may have seen the political compass test that's been doing the rounds - it looks to find where we are on the spectrum regardi...

Think of a murmuration of starling birds preparing to roost, and  a shot of Manhattan. Both are stunning images, and  they are both the resu...

In response to my last blog on the fallacy of destroying the planet there have been a few misapprehensions floating around. Consequently...

I wasn't going to write a Blog post on the Pope's latest perorations - but a few people have asked for my views on it, so I had ...

Nicholas Salvador detained over woman's beheading This case is terribly sad, and at the same time it also presents us with an intr...

I love it when I happen to come across a perfect illustration like the one above that so neatly sums up why anti-austerity campaigners lik...

Recent history demonstrates that in the future the Labour party is probably going to have to choose between being slightly economically r...