Paul Whelan

A difficult question indeed, posed on Sky's  Sophie Ridge on Sunday  this morning to Oliver Dowden, the UK's new Deputy Prime Minist...

Politics, history, philosophy, psychology ... sounds heavy-going, but I don't believe you'll find that's the case, nor the thoug...

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his team have clearly worked hard to find a decent way round the crisis caused by Boris Johnson...

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his team have clearly worked hard to find a decent way round the crisis caused by Boris Johnson...

The tradition among the print and broadcast media is 'balance'. They assume an overriding duty to a public interest commonly taken t...

  It was a question in an online Masterclass: was Susan making a free choice when she ordered noodles instead of rice with her Chinese meal?...

As we go through life, our mind and body seem separate from each other, to exist independently. We could list endless examples of it here bu...

The question arose whenever my articles were published on a particular website. I won't name the site, that's not my point. I just d...

War, along with all its horrors, brings change, much of it unforeseen, and Putin's war in Ukraine has already shown it is going to be no...

The dawn of the nuclear age saw the parallel understanding that war between the superpowers is henceforth ruled out. US policy towards the ...

An excerpt from an essay by Yuval Noah Harari, historian, philosopher and author At the heart of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental qu...

It is no surprise so many of us find the whole Covid thing totally bewildering. We never had to worry before whether we had a 'right...

People appear to come in two broad categories: they are either 'more conservative' or 'more liberal'. 'More' is an a...

  May 4 2004 On May 4 1954 I heard the Prelude to  Tristan   and Isolde  and the  Liebestod  for the first time. Words remain as helpless as...

People hold different, sometimes mistaken expectations of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture in South Africa. They hear the ...

As I was impressed with Mitch McConnell's apparent position in the days leading up to Donald Trump's Senate trial,* am I surprised, ...

  Mitch McConnell’s speech in Congress this week was the finest a Republican could make, suspending fears that individual conscience and hon...

Having addressed readers on Trump more than once over his four degrading years, I write at this eleventh hour about Mitch McConnell, so that...

As I began with a short piece just two days* after David Cameron's calamitously misjudged Brexit referendum of June 23 2016, it seems fi...

It seems wholly inadequate to wish the usual 'Merry Christmas' after this awful year for everyone, so here are my authentic thoughts...

Is Donald Trump a fascist, plotting in his White House bunker?  Disconcertingly, the answer to the question rests with us. Fascism lies on t...

Can you believe a word of it? All those questions that occupied us before Covid-19 arrived to scoop the lot - the ones t...