Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...
Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation? House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? Considered thinkers from Mandelbrot ('fractals') or Keillor ('Lake Wobegon Days')...
Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection? Most of us rarely think about plant immunity. But, like...
Science-Based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector Many companies are now required to have a “Science-based Target”...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...