53% of Leave voters are in favour of bringing back the death penalty, compared with 20% of Remainers. 42% of Brexiters back the return of corporal punishment in schools, as do just 14% of Remainers. Support for bringing back incandescent light bulbs, blue passports and pre-decimal currency is three times higher among Brexiters than among …
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To The Guardian: Regarding Jonathan Steele’s review of “Insatiable” by Stuart Sim (7 April): Insatiable greed, the profit motive and competition are not the only aspects of human nature that conform to the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest”. “Fittest” in “On the Origin of Species” doesn’t mean most able to exploit those around …
Funny how the people who profess to love this country (Britain) the most always seem, deep down, to despise it, says Alex Massie. After the terrorist attack in Westminster, the reaction of most of us was to feel sympathy for the victims and to continue quietly to go about our business. But not Nigel Farage …
In Chapter 7 of the Art of Happiness the Dalai Lama defines compassion as a “state of mind that is nonviolent, non-harming, and non-aggressive”. This feeling of compassion is broken down into two types. First is compassion associated with attachment. Using this type of compassion alone is biased and unstable, causing certain emotional attachments that …
Documents released by the White House under ethics rules have confirmed the staggering wealth of President Trump’s senior advisers and officials. The documents, recording the estimated assets of officials at the time they took office, show that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have a property portfolio and business empire worth as much as $740m, and …
