Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.