Should the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights?
The Council of Europe ((I am grateful to John Duddington, Peter Frost, David McIlroy and, as ever, the members of the Cambridge Papers editorial group for their extensive engagement with…
The Council of Europe ((I am grateful to John Duddington, Peter Frost, David McIlroy and, as ever, the members of the Cambridge Papers editorial group for their extensive engagement with…
Introducing AI chatbots AI chatbots,((For a full list of AI chatbots and the categories of their use, see: <https://originality.ai/blog/ai-chatbot-list>.)) such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, are based on Large Language…
Introduction In the modern world it is very easy to drift through a shallow version of life, experiencing fleeting pleasures, concerned only with the surface. Social media is designed to…
‘There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be … unholy, … without self-control, brutal, … lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God … Have nothing…
Introduction G. K. Chesterton, creator of the Father Brown stories and author of Orthodoxy, came within a few steps of becoming a worshipper, not of God, but the devil. In…
What is chronic pain? As anyone who has quickly let go of a saucepan that is too hot to handle knows, acute pain can be useful. Indeed, the absence of…
Introduction Hamas’s brutal attack on 7 October 2023, and Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza have brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a head. ‘Gaza,’ writes Tareq Baconi, ‘is one microcosm,…
Introduction Momentous cultural shifts took place during early nineteenth-century Britain (circa 1790 to 1840). Attitudes to public morality were transformed and Christian moral reformers were at the forefront of these…
Introduction We are living through tumultuous times in monetary affairs. After a decade of record low, even negative interest rates, inflation has returned with a vengeance and interest rates have…
‘Research carried out with a high level of integrity upholds values of honesty, rigour, transparency and open communication, as well as care and respect for those involved in research and…