Recently, I got food poisoning on holiday. I guzzled a glass of water from the hotel bathroom tap, after missing a sign saying it wasn’t drinkable. I regretted that decision, but what nagged at me ...

What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’ ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears ...