Sometimes the speed with which science moves can be startling, even to scientists. The 1990s film Gattaca is set in a future in which everyone aspires to conceive via IVF so they can select those embryos with the best genetic profile for their offspring.
The general strike in Greece on Thursday of last week was even more powerful than the one on 24 February.
Like winter, the economic slump is reluctant to let Britain escape its grip. All attempts to talk up the "recovery" seem doomed to failure.
The idea that the far right thugs of the English Defence League (EDL) might gain friends, allies and even adherents in the upper classes would be scoffed at in polite society.
Schools minister Ed Balls insulted all teachers when he agreed that it is OK for Nazi BNP members to teach in our schools.
Everything is changing. Many people worry that we’re "losing the British way of life".
We are witnessing a frenzy of climate "scepticism". Following the hacking of emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, the right are arguing that the science of human-caused global warming is wrong.
West Yorkshire chief constable Norman Bettison’s comments in Generation Jihad on BBC2 are a matter of grave concern.
Two and half million people are unemployed in Britain today. Every day the press report more job losses.
The call by anti-fascists to stop the racist English Defence League (EDL) from marching in Bolton on 20 March and Dudley on 4 April is sparking a debate.
Ask yourself a question when considering the news that an Israeli hit squad used British passports during the assassination of a Hamas leader: What would the reaction of the British government have been if Iranian agents had used such documents in order to eliminate an opposition leader living abroad?
Soon after the invasion of Iraq, the journalist and academic Anatol Lieven wrote that the run-up to the war had "a peculiarly nightmarish quality in the US.
