Tag Archives: Traditional morality

Twenty-nineteen was the year when people decided they care about climate change and the environment. Or at least they made sure to be seen saying they did. But words are cheap when they fall short of action. Remember seeing left-wing activist group Extinction Rebellion carry out long-drawn protests in London. …

Fifty years ago, the movie that changed the movies premiered. Anybody old enough to remember films before “Bonnie and Clyde” can testify to the jolting power of Arthur Penn’s kinetic blend of bluegrass slapstick, Depression-era nostalgia, and gruesome, stylised violence. But something else was revealed then, something that I, just …

We live in a relentlessly secular society. In some ways I am glad that we do. I would far prefer to live in a secular society than a theocratic one. I don’t want laws to be governed by any religion. I don’t want a government to say to me that …