From the hype surrounding the film Fifty Shades of Grey, based on books by a female author, E. L. James, those unacquainted with its subject matter might assume that it was a romantic if slightly saucy ‘chick flick’; but the whole phenomenon highlights how the eugenics idea has risen likeRead More

From the amount of money now spent on children it would be easy to assume that they are the most wanted and cherished children in Western history; and yet we are money-rich but time-poor, because with both parents in paid employment, much spending is for the sake of convenience andRead More

November 2013 marked fifty years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but also the passing of Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis, each prophetic in his own way.

Huxley’s most famous work Brave New World (1932) predicted that people would be bred like animals and graded according to their pre-destined place in society. As we will see, the idea had already been canvassed in fiction, and the Eugenics Society was busy working on the scientific breeding of humans. But has Huxley’s ‘brave new world’ come to pass?

Under the Human Rights Act, paedophiles must now be allowed unsupervised meetings with their own children; apparently, to prevent them would be a breach of their right to a family life. Most reasonable people would say that by committing these appalling crimes they have forfeited such rights. However, contributors toRead More

Many people believe abortion was legalized because of thousands of backstreet abortions, leading to the tragic deaths of women; that the abortion campaign was part of the feminist movement; that the 1967 Abortion Act was the work of radicals who wanted to help poor overburdened mothers. None of this isRead More

We are by now familiar with Atheist stunts: the man who recorded his lack of consent in the baptism register (long after the original ceremony); the bus advertisement announcing, Theres probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life. More recently, celebrity Atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens haveRead More