Sunday, 26 January 2014

Spiked-online pieces

I've written a number of pieces for Spiked, the on-line, ballsy, current affairs magazine. They range from cot death to a compassion crisis, from smoking bans to snooping and policing ... .... 

Friday, 24 January 2014

Abortion: an automatic right?

Abortion is rarely out of the news these days. Although legal in most of the UK (it is not legal in Northern Ireland) since the 1967 Abortion Act, its availability remains contentious.

Friday, 17 January 2014

Infant determinism

An ‘enforced caesarean’ and adoption story recently dominated media headlines.  But the grounds for allowing the child to be placed for adopted are based on contestable theory – infant determinism.