We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it […]

You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending […]

Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. Cookery programs bloat the television schedules, cookbooks fill the bookshop windows, and celebrity […]

I’d been sitting in John Gulzari’s living room for more than an hour when he suddenly jumped up and rushed […]

Clean lines, absence of decoration, avoidance of clutter, simplicity, and above all functionality – these are the characteristics of modernist […]

In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed […]

Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […]

Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […]

What do you do? I’m a mechanic; I’m a horticulturalist. It’s the first question we ask others, and the way […]

I have been happy. I hope to be happy again. But I am yet to feel something I’d call “happiness”. […]

Cake, sex and fame. Their lure is strong. If something pushes our sweet, sex or status buttons, we spark right […]

I know a rich man who buys properties. He decorates them, fills them with consumer goods and then leaves them […]

“I’ll scream”, the priest muttered as he left the funeral, “if I have to listen to ‘I Did It My […]

Sum yourself up in a couple of words. Users of social media do it to introduce themselves online. “Surfer, father, […]