Adrian Brockless

Bobby Tulloch's book Shetland: An Islander, His Islands and Their Wildlife, first published in 1988, unfortunately, is no longer in...

In recent conversations about the death of HM Elizabeth II and surrounding events, it has been said to me that leaders of publicly funded...

By Adrian Brockless The idea that education is answerable to the jobs market, economy and business is now more pervasive than ever; in...

Loving The Natural World and Being Vegetarian Firstly, to be clear from the outset, what follows is not an argument for or against...

A friend recently drew my attention to the rise of anti-natalism. Anti-natalism as an idea came to prominence this year (2019) when...

Proposition 1: It is undemocratic to ignore the will of parliament Proposition 2: It is undemocratic to ignore the electorate....

Abstract: In recent years, the world has witnessed an increase in political and religious unrest, both in totalitarian and democratic...

Reading Bill Oddie’s article ‘I don’t believe it!’ in Birdwatch (January 2019; issue 319) got me thinking about evolution. I am not...

My aim here is not to make any arguments that oppose veganism or having children or, in any way, to denigrate those who make them....

Recently, I heard a re-run of an episode of the BBC Radio Four programme *Any Questions* (first broadcast in 2009. In it, the panel were...

The issue of anthropogenic climate change is never far from the headlines; its current and future impact on our social and economic...

Take Mr. Rochester from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Here is a figure whose character is stand-offish and remote (more than aloof)....

What roles do trust and truth play in our political discourse? Why do we think we need them? Is it important that we believe something for t

In this paper I make no claims as to the existence or non-existence of any kind of god in relation to the problem of evil, but rather, highl

The Aspirational Voter I want to talk about what is often referred to during political debates as the ‘aspirational voter’. One thing...

Some Thoughts About Understanding Mental Illness Understanding the concept of depression as answerable to the actions that a person...

It’s A Strange Situation We’re Part Of! Have you ever thought that the ordinary is extraordinary? – That what you think to be normal is...

Reasons, Causes and Political Unrest “Might it not even be imagined that several people had carried out an intention without any one of...

It is frequently believed that the practice of wildlife conservation is determined by science. Amidst the recent escalation of debates conce

Education and Teaching: Some Thoughts for Our Policy Makers For me, teaching is not just a job. I had little idea of what I wanted to do...