The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of Orwell’s great insights in 1984 was that when a language lacks a word for a concept, it becomes difficult for people to think coheren...

Accountancy  always suffers the reputation for being boring and dreary. "We pore through arcane pages of tax law to find out how to sl...

Out of interest, I decided to try being vegetarian for a month. (Not vegan though - that $#!^ is wack , yo.) Partly this is due to lingering...

 ( image credit ) If you're at the zoo with educated types, a frequent complaint you'll hear is about the cruelty of keeping t...

I am a bad liar. I don't like lying, and as a result, I don't do it very much. This creates a virtuous circle - because I don't ...

The Economist has an interesting article about how a researcher is set to make a hamburger patty out of artificially grown meat - that is, ...

Western society has seen enormous changes in its attitude towards animal cruelty over the last 150 or so years. In a rural setting, if you w...