Naked Reflections

It’s easier said than done...

Tell the Ukrainians to turn the other cheek and you’d probably get short shrift. So what does this advice really mean?

In the blue corner: National Anthems and military marches; in the red corner: protest songs. Politics and music often...

A light- hearted discussion about positive thinking in bad times...

Is it sometimes necessary or even productive to stop negotiating?

Is the world population, at eight billion and rising, too high?

The UK asylum system is broken. The Woolf Institute Commission on the Integration of Refugees aims to help fix it...

Are we witnessing the collapse of the NHS in real time?

We reflect on the secular and the religious approaches to mental ill health and find that they are not mutually...

The Slave Trade was abolished in 1807, but modern slavery still blights society...

We all face death, and this sense of an ending is expressed in religion and art. Does science provide a more comforting...

Hatred is a powerful human emotion. It can motivate individuals and nations, sometimes with tragic consequences...

In a world of threatened resources and growing population, how should we eat sustainably and responsibly?

When the film LADY OF HEAVEN was released, there were vigorous protests and Cineworld withdrew the film. What was going...

Extracts from two of our favourite episodes, combined into a Summer Special covering QAnon and Sex...

Can you have one without the other?

Gambling can take place in a bedroom, on the High Street or on a train. Is it’s ubiquity a problem for a few or for...

Irish writer Rose Doyle talks to Ed Kessler about her son’s suicide...

Victor Orban coined the phrase Fortress Europe, expressing a desire for Christianity to keep Islam at bay...

Memory is mysterious and we are only now beginning to understand how it works in our brains...

Many families in the UK open their homes to provide refuge for fleeing Ukrainians. What is the history and the future...

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Kirill of Moscow both got into trouble recently for mixing up religion with...

There’s a pizza joint in Washington DC where a cabal of satanic child abusers meets to brag about their exploits.

Is diaspora community just a posh phrase for immigrant community?