Published on
21 March 2012
John Varley was educated at Downside, then Oriel College, Oxford, and afterwards at the College of Law. After a few years working as a solicitor he joined Barclays Bank in 1982. From 2004 until 2010 he was Group Chief Executive of the Bank. He sits currently on the boards of Blackrock, AstraZeneca and Rio Tinto […]
Published on
29 February 2012
1. Introduction A great deal of morality is concerned with the public arena: examining what is required for a just and fair society, and trying to map out the nature and extent of our obligations to our fellow citizens and to the wider world. The concepts of conscience, guilt and shame, by contrast, seem primarily […]
Published on
7 December 2011
A consistent message and direction often expressed in the actions and teaching of Pope Benedict XVI is the need for an ongoing dialogue between religious faith and the secular mind, based on the role of reason. Indeed, this was central to the appeal he made during the Visit to the UK in September 2010. And […]
Published on
12 October 2011
Two events tend to occur more or less regularly throughout history: wars and epidemics. Sometimes they occur separately and sometimes together. Both have caused and indeed continue to cause, devastating damage in terms of loss of life, physical and psychological suffering, famine, mass emigration and overall impoverishment of the affected populations. Although numbers do not […]