In the summer of 1739 Voltaire and his extraordinary and brilliant mistress, Emilie du Châtelet, made a brief sojourn in Brussels. While there Voltaire styled himself ‘the Ambassador of Utopia’ on his invitation cards, and found to his amusement that hardly anyone got the joke – they did not know what ‘Utopia’ meant or where it was. Yet in the light of Voltaire’s lifelong utopian quest for freedom – of thought, of conscience, of expression, of love, of the individual, of nations, of mankind at large – the title he adopted in jest surely applies in earnest.

Nov 2005

In The Mind’s Eye

The Shadows Lengthen

Naked at a Party

All You Need To Know

Objectively Speaking

Brain Matters

Evolutionary Minds

Apocalypse Now

A Man Of Gravity

Missives from the Monastry

Man and Beast

A Stitch In Time

Atomic Angst

To Think for Oneself

The Progress of Pulchritude

A Theory to Believe In

Herbert’s Law

In Two Minds

Crisis? What Crisis?

Touching the Third Rail

Simply Hideous

Locke’s Laundry

The Country of the Word

Crossroads in Cairo

Passion & Possibility

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