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Shopping Around the Baby Market
Commercial surrogacy – the practice of paying another woman to carry a pregnancy to term – has been criticised for being exploitative, particularly w…
7 years ago
Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go
Have you ever been somewhere you shouldn't? In this essay, New Generation Thinker Ben Anderson creeps around, and explains how trespassers in the ear…
7 years ago
Being Diplomatic
How much emotion should you show if you are a diplomat, a news reporter or a conciliation expert? Anne McElvoy chairs a Free Thinking Festival debate…
7 years ago
The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama
Daisy Black looks at religious imagery, food, anti-semitism and product placement in medieval mystery plays. Eaten by characters, dotted around the s…
7 years ago
Anxiety and the Teenage Brain
Worrying is a natural part of growing-up. And yet the incidence of serious anxiety and depression is rapidly increasing. Psychologist Stephen Briers …
7 years ago
A city is not a park but should it be?
From the story of Jonas Salk, who left the city of Pittsburgh for a medieval Italian town to create the space to think which led to the invention of …
7 years ago
Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson
Many legal systems have allowed the accused the defence of a “crime of passion”: attributing their act to a sudden explosion of feeling, rather than …
7 years ago
Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture
The idea of ‘emotions’ did not exist until the nineteenth century but now they are the subject of study and Professor Thomas Dixon was the first dir…
7 years ago
Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
The writers of TV sitcoms The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet talk to Matthew Sweet. As a restoration of the film version of The Likel…
7 years ago
Betrayal
From politics to religion, gangster films to espionage, Philip Dodd considers acts of betrayal, with theologian, Elaine Storkey, columnist Peter Hitc…
7 years ago