Doddering old academics in philosophy departments all over the world may very well be preparing to pack the contents of their offices into cardboard boxes now that Professor Stephen Hawking has told us, in his latest book, that ‘philosophy is dead’. Yet such nonsensical arguments as those offered by Hawking highlight why we are so […]

Conservative Party Co-Chairman Baroness Warsi was reported last week to have pledged that the Coalition Government will ‘restore faith to the heart of Britain’. Her comments came on the eve of the first ever State Visit by a reigning Pope to Britain. During his visit the Pope spoke strongly on several occasions about the role […]

Back in May Channel 4 caused widespread upset by screening the first abortion advertisement ever to be shown in the UK. This month an Australian TV company banned an advert which appeared to be promoting euthanasia. The advert features a sick-looking man sitting on a bed speaking about different choices he has made during his […]

Chris Bryant MP plans to introduce a bill today under the ten-minute rule attempting to make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory in state schools. It is rare for a ten-minute rule bill to pass onto the statute books, although since 1945 there have been sixty Acts of Parliament which began life in this way. […]

With the advent of a Conservative-Liberal coalition heralding the end of the New Labour era, it was only a matter of time before the political memoirs appeared, stimulating a media feeding frenzy over the scraps thrown down from the tables of the politicians. Lord Mandelson was the first to step up with his book The […]

Posts on A Blog for All Seasons will recommence, after the summer break, in the autumn.

General McChrystal has done it again. The American military leader in Afghanistan has once more spoken out about his superiors in the media, adding to a chain of escapades in the public arena. He has offered his sincere advice on military policy in Afghanistan to anybody who will listen. This conjures up an age-old conundrum […]

From a guest blogger: How wonderful this modern world is. I can phone-in to kick politicians out of X-factor, and vote online to show—within a few hours of television debate—how Nick Clegg is as good as Winston Churchill. Why can’t politics work like that all the time? I wish I could have texted-in to oust […]