Charity
I’m sick of weak women being praised as ‘strong’
When I heard that the television pundit and all-round nepot Kelly Osbourne had gone into ‘food rehab’ upon gaining weight,…
Please stop trying to raise my awareness
Once, campaigners and charities tried to fight social evils. Now they just tell us about them
The charity that could make you love social workers
The charity that could make the public love social workers– and why many social workers don’t like it
I’m sick of sponsoring you to suffer
Every charitable donation now seems to come with a promise to suffer
Russell Brand on heroin, abstinence and addiction
The only way to help addicts is to treat them not as bad people but as sick people
Leader: Winter sunshine
Every day of this new year, some 200,000 people are likely to be lifted out of what the United Nations defines as extreme poverty: living on $1.25 a day or less.
Crying in the wilderness
For 30 years Alastair Crooke was ostensibly a British diplomat working in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Columbia and Pakistan.
Genetics, God and antlers
‘Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.’ Oren Harman uses this quote from Immanuel Kant to open one of the chapters of The Price of Altruism, and it’s an observation that — after the steady reflection on moral law that Harman’s book invites and encourages — only seems more true by the end.
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Letters: David Gower defends bats
The Spectator 10 August 2013 9:00 am
In defence of bats Sir: I am saddened by the ‘us versus them’ stance taken by Melissa Kite (‘Bats vs…