Since 1998 the proportion of girls becoming pregnant between the ages of 15 and 17 in England and Wales fell to less than 2.% in 2014, a drop of almost a half. Pregnancies at this age are generally unplanned and unwanted, and about half end in abortion. The answer has been more sex education and …
Epicureanism was never meant to be a dry academic philosophy. In fact, it is best kept away from academia, where, as usual with philosophy, long words render it dull, if not incomprehensible. Rather, it is a vital way of living which seeks to free men and women from a life of unhappiness, fear and anxiety. It is a …
“I was surprised that the latest Bond film, Spectre, is officially categorised as containing only ‘moderate violence’. Since it involves exploding buildings (with people inside them), several shootings, fisticuffs every few minutes, eye-gouging and torture, I shudder to think what would be labelled ‘immoderate’. People who join Isis and other Islamist groups are accused of an …
You can do nothing on the web without filling in your email address and password. It gets time- consuming and boring, especially if you have a number of passwords (for security reasons) and you can’t remember which one to use. So why is it obligatory to do this? If you are contacting a bank or …
A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced to death Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh for apostasy (apostasy?) and other blasphemy-related offenses, including promoting atheism, in his 2008 poetry collection, Instructions Within. The 35-year-old was released on bail only to be arrested again on January 1, 2014, when he was sentenced to four years in prison and …
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