On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.