Government delays Bribery Act again

Ministers should use already available and useful guidance on this necessary new law, not conduct yet another consultation This week the Ministry of Justice proudly announced that the long-awaited Bribery Act will become law in 2011. "The act will ensure the UK is at the forefront of the battle against bribery," it said on Tuesday . The legislation follows a long-term Guardian investigation into ...

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In this groundbreaking new report on the long-running and (of late) controversial BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day feature, researcher Lizzie Clifford moves forward the debate about whether the prime-time God slot should be preserved, reformed or abolished by carrying out a careful examination of the actual broadcast scripts themselves with surprising results.

The Good Life and St Benedict of Nursia

St Benedict is often given the credit for being the founder of Western Monasticism. Benedict's idea of the Good Life was like the idea of St Augustine of Hippo before him. He set up communities of monks and nuns. His idea was to divide each day up into periods of works and prayer. The monasteries that grew from his ideas about the good life helped to preserve Western civilisation after the ...

You can still find a 'Good Samaritan'

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain-Most people know the parable of the Good Samaritan as told in the Bible. A man is traveling along a road and is robbed and beaten by thugs and left for dead. As he

Toad trip: Larkin 25 years on

A quarter-century after the poet Philip Larkins death, his literary executor looks back on his legacy including the time he turned down This Be the Verse for the NS . . .