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On Earth As In Heaven
Fifty years ago today an event happened that changed our view of the world forever. Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were blasted into space on the Apollo 8... Read more -
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What You’ve Been Reading on Think
In those days Google Analytics issued a report of all that had been read on Think in the entire year. (This was the eighth such report that took place while Pollock,... Read more -
Turtles, Poppies and Jesus Only
Has any domestic object ever gone from unobserved ubiquity to mass condemnation so quickly as the disposable plastic straw? Plastic is the enemy. We’ve all seen the... Read more -
The Identity Merry Go Round
The news that Emile Ratelband, a Dutch ‘media personality’, is pursuing a court case to change his legal age to 49 from his biological age of 69 is amusing. Read more -
Living by the Mountain
'Africa’s coastline? Great beaches, really, really lovely beaches, but terrible natural harbours. Rivers? Amazing rivers, but most of them are rubbish for actually... Read more -
Safeguarding the Psalms
“Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” Amen. And now our children will go to their activities for the morning. Read more -
Once More Into the Breach
The more gender equality in a country, the greater the difference in the way men and women think. It could be called the patriarchy paradox.
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The Quietus is Here
In P.D. James’ brilliant and chilling novel, The Children of Men, the elderly and infirm, a burden on a dying society, are forced to take part in a ‘quietus’ – a... Read more -
Surrogacy Sucks
Surrogacy is sold as a beautiful thing - a gift by which a woman enables other people to have the longed for child they cannot conceive or carry themselves. But this is... Read more - Page < 1 2 3 4 > Last ›