There’s a house on my walk to work that makes me happy every time I pass it. The glow of it turns my dark mornings brighter and more joyful.

There’s a time and place for everything and I put being kind above being right

The uncomfortable truth is that murderers and rapists are humans with human stories

Even as we fret about young people being addicted to smartphones, every single age demographic appears to be similarly afflicted with this addiction

'I’m setting some time aside to hold the gold of my life, rather than leaving it for the next generation to sift through when it’s been reduced to dust by time and grief'

If John Hume were alive today, he would most likely be trying to spread a message of peace, reconciliation, and dialogue around the Israel-Palestine conflict. Maybe we could all take a leaf out of his book before commenting on the issue

Anyone who speeds on our roads is brandishing a loaded gun. They absolutely deserve to be punished for it

Writer Fay Weldon, who died earlier this year, said the greatest advantage to being childless must be that you get to go on believing you’re a nice person.

The assertion that the biology of men and women is straightforward in every instance is fundamentally flawed

We must respond to the challenges of AI by truly reforming how we do thingsin education