It's a depressing reality of life in our current media climate that when I heard the story of three-year-old Victoria Wilcher, my first reaction wasn't sympathy or outrage, but suspicion. It's not that it wasn't entirely possible that a little girl had been kicked out of a KFC ...read more

If you haven't read E.O Wilson, you really should. The eminent biologist is a brilliant thinker and wonderful writer who draws from many different disciplines and manages to make complicated subjects extremely easy to understand. I dug up a fascinating interview with him on the ...read more