The Nuffield Bioethics Council was taken on what is actually a bold new step: it openly approved the use of editing the genome to develop the characteristics of future children and generations. The council’s report, Genome editing and human reproduction: social and ethical issues, asserts that such a move could be [...]

They were right to be worried. Within hours of arriving in Europe, Donald trump was busy insulting America’s closest friends and threatening to dismember NATO. He publicly humiliated Theresa May and did his importunate best to force regime change in Westminster, before halfheartedly apologising. Now he takes his [...]

Last week, the labour party introduced a code of conduct against anti-Semitism, stronger than anything else, adopted by any political party in the country. This follows our adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) full definition of antisemitism in 2016 and Labour’s annual conference [...]

‘I was only ever afraid of signs and symbols, never of people and things, ‘ wrote Romanian writer Mikhail Sebastian in a wonderful book of 1934 that captures the stifling atmosphere of anti – Semitism and toxic nationalism in his country between the two world wars. Today in Europe and the US there’s a [...]

This week will be the record: the most expensive Amateur Golf game in British and possibly world history. A £5m price tag is being put on the Scottish leg of Donald Trump’s visit to these [...]

Advertising causes problems with body image, TV talk shows claim it’s“ bad for teenagers,”and headlines dubbed it”toxic and hollow.” Love Island has been accused of epitomising everything that is wrong with the Instagram age – by placing a dozen preened, polished and beautiful contestants on TV [...]

When Donald trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki on July 16, the winner will be only one: it will be the guy who likes to be depicted riding shirtless in Siberia, not the one who trundles around a golf course in a cart. The biggest losers, of course, will be the rest of us, as the future prospects for [...]

The expulsion of Sarah Huckabee Sanders from a restaurant in Virginia by employees unhappy with her role as press Secretary Donald trump, crystallized the American crisis: not quite a civil war, but a war for civilization. According to the Trump administration, an epidemic of bad manners, mockery and profanity has [...]

The state of Israel faces a catastrophic situation that could soon lead to widespread bloodshed. It is time for the international community to act decisively. Substantive external pressure – political, economic and cultural – offers the only chance of emerging from this impossible situation before it is too late. [...]