Not so long ago, a boy called Falk was walking through the forest near his home, looking for mushrooms, when he heard an almighty roaring...

There were two mountains, one in the north and one in the south. There was a wide valley between them and a great river running east to...

Having a human brain is both a blessing and a curse; it’s a blessing because I get to appreciate beautiful things: a sunrise on a clear...

I am white, middle-aged and male therefore I am responsible for everything from the oppression of women and minorities to global warming...

I’ve believed for a while that this country, if not the world, has been in a second dark age since the last of the empires fell in the...

The first stage of my Grand Project is now complete. The last of the four books of Platinum Mind is finished and first year in the life...

I have no argument with Greta Thunberg’s message or the protests by thousands of children calling for action on climate change. But I do...

Everywhere you look these days, in the papers or on the internet, there are people calling the European Union ‘evil’, as though its will...

Many years ago, my birthday fell on the first day of my first teaching job. It was going to be stressful enough but I woke up to find the...

Is England heading towards another civil war? If it is, how will it be different from the first one? It’s very tempting to look at the...

The arguments around the death penalty should have been remembered before the public was given a referendum on leaving the European Union...

Back in the fifth century, I expect there was a great deal of jeering from the beaches as the Britons watched the Romans leave our shores...

I’ve always been slightly appalled but never-the-less impressed by the courage of men in previous generations to answer their country’s...