Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.