So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?