Last week, I think I led something of the good life. Why? Because we spent most of the week with good friends and then, over the weekend, my brother and his family. Someone's life cannot be called happy, even if they have every other good thing the...

Money is reflexive stuff. Not just in the sense of being a medium of exchange. But in the sense that it affects our beliefs, values and feelings. Just watch a kid's face light up upon receipt of pocket money, or adult heads turn as a Ferrari purrs down...

That the children on the poster in the British Humanist Association's don't-label-your-children campaign are, in fact, the kids of famous Christians can't but help raise a smile. The BHA's defence is that it doesn't matter who the kids are: they...

Views today of the assorted monuments on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, which the Scottish Enlightenment sages surely saw as the Acropolis of the North.

Over 2000 people have done the What's Your Philosophy Type quiz now. The stoics lead, with two in five folk being offered a little Zeno; followed by one third showing an apparent preference for the way of the Epicureans. Aristotle, Pyrrho, Plato and...