Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.