The Philosophical Muser

I really do despair of some people - to be precise 46,899 people (the current number of signatories for this daft petition to introduce m...

Hardly a day goes by without hearing someone complaining about London house prices. I think London is a fantastic city - far and away t...

  We *Are* Apes, Silly! If you do happen to be a member of that anachronistic group that still hasn't learned this fact yet, I...

In recent weeks Jeremy Corbyn has gained the kind of publicity of which a rock star would be proud. Just recently we saw a huge number of...

Here's an interesting neurological study in psychologist Dr. Jeremy Dean's excellent blog to which I'm subscribed, showing t...

On Thursday in this Blog post I set about dispelling one or two myths about sex pay differences. It was a popular blog post, generating ...

David Cameron wants to force companies with over 250 employees to disclose sexes pay gaps. He's doing this because he has swallowed t...

In this blog I wrote about history and how best to manage it. In this blog post I just want to add something else important to it - somet...

Around the world you’ll find a bunch of people – notably physicists, mathematicians and philosophers – who think mathematics is no more t...

I have a coin in my hand; on one side should be heads (H) and on the other side should be tails (T). I just spun my coin ten times - it r...

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...