This week, having fessed up to further burdening an already crowded planet, we have been re-engineering our three children to render them less environmentally destructive than two standard-issue human infants. Read the rest of this entry »

My parents’ generation brought forth two kids per family, thus ensuring the survival of the species as it thrilled to a bri-nylon world of G&T, waterskiing, and promiscuous love. Then the Seventies ended, and with them any possible rationale for perpetuating humanity. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ll be in London on 4th Feb you are warmly invited to attend a public forum at the (very beautiful) Southwark Cathedral, 7pm-8.30pm, on the theme of refugee and asylum-seeker detention in the UK. [Click here to see event flyer]. On the panel will be me, Jonathan Cox (Director of Citizens for Sanctuary), the Revd Canon Ruth Worsley, and Tom Greig, Deputy Director of the London area for the UK Border Agency. Read the rest of this entry »

I enjoyed doing this podcast with the good people at Shift Run Stop. They are the sort of folk one might follow on Twitter and never regret it.