Paul Whelan

Some years ago I wrote an article  suggesting the answer lay with you – and with all of us – personally. Was that reasonable, is it now? Sin...

                     Newspaper headline after Trump's combative Inaugural Address Friend and foe know Donald Trump can talk alright. He ...

Following her party's devastating electoral defeat this month, Ms Kemi Badenoch is running for the Conservative leadership later this ye...

If God did not create the Universe, then something else did. Think about it.  The only possible alternative is the Universe created itself. ...

  My belief - perhaps it has become or will become one day my firm conclusion: it will certainly disappoint some of my readers now - is that...

We've all heard about our genes. Genetics is the science of genes, their structure, function and the not quite perfect way they transmit...

Come what may, God is with you. Even as the Universe evolves (see About genes, science ,   the Universe, evolution, God and all that stuff...

We've all heard about our genes. Genetics is the science of genes, their structure, function and the not quite perfect way they transmit...

Journalists, even when partisan in the name of freedom of speech, still like to say they are after the truth. That may well be honest in t...

You may know how you're going to vote already of course. Though most of us are not prepared to admit it to pollsters, most of us know an...

  This article is not a review of the ICJ judgment in the case of 'South Africa v Israel', full coverage of which is available acros...

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...