Science is very good at telling us how things work, but the why part is another matter. Programmes on science and astronomy, and David Attenborough’s award winning natural history films tell us about the fragile, complex relationships that sustain life on our planet. But they don’t tell us why we’re here…
Scheuer believes the U.S. has underestimated bin Laden, saying he, and the movement he leads, is “much more dangerous than anyone gives him credit for.”
Many of the western values we think of as superior came from the East and our blind arrogance hurts our standing in the world
The Marva program, part summer camp part indoctrination, was launched in Israel in 1981. It allows participants, who must be Jewish and between the ages of 18 and 28, to fire weapons, live in military barracks in the Negev desert and saunter around in an Israeli military uniform saluting and taking long hikes with military packs.
Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides
The new honesty of community leaders must be matched by a strategy from government that is patient and painstaking
Britain’s new cultural divide is not between Christian and Muslim, Hindu and Jew. It is between those who have faith and those who do not.
Politicians and media have turned a debate about integration into an ugly drumbeat of hysteria against British Muslims
