A helpful talk for understanding transgender issues and thinking about how to respond to a transgender person.

Why are so many of the films and TV shows we enjoy obsessed with the end of the world?

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"Make them remember you." The Doctor’s advice to Amy and Rory as they faced the Parliament of the Daleks (episode 1: 'Asylum of the…

Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…

Big Mike walks as though every step is an effort. Head and shoulders taller and a good few inches broader than everyone he passes, dressed…

Writer / directors Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest cerebral masterpiece is a fable on the purpose of morality, and the reasons for…