Paul Whelan

Can you call the system of government in the UK and America - to name but two - "democracy"? Yes, of course. And be sure that demo...

  Someone on Twitter this week (let's call her Georgie, not her real name) helped me understand why many of us misunderstand science. Mo...

It's a question we all face, you'd think inappropriately, from when we are young.  Most of us seem to agree that, provided your heal...

People love a mystery, especially a scary one, and the media's making AI a scary mystery.  Let's take the mystery out, if not quite ...

Boris Johnson's delay in handing over his phone to the UK's Covid inquiry is adding to the seemingly endless controversy enmeshing t...

It's a well known question, generally followed by the instinctive answer, "Of course it does!" Then, perhaps, a short pause an...

However much they still argue, Leavers and Remainers should be able to admit by now that it wasn't agreed in June 2016 what Brexit invol...

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 ...