If you don’t know which way to vote, the simplest approach is to apply the philosophical principle of harm. On a personal level: could ‘yes’ do me any harm? No. Could ‘no’ do someone else some harm? Yes…

Someone says you’re idiosyncratic. You take it as a compliment though it was delivered with indeterminate tonality. A lovely word – its Greek stems idios ‘own’ and synkrasis ‘mixing together’ – an exacting neologic combination. It's very much a mix of…

To date this piece, I write at the time of the worst ever domestic shooting in the US. Which at the time you’re reading, may not be the worst anymore. As it is, I’ve got 49 dead, 53 wounded.* What have you got?

When underwear shopping, try as I might to avoid it, there’s always that moment I inadvertently find myself in the big-bosom brassiere aisle. A teenage boy or young girl I’d understand, but me, a grown woman? I panic, blush…

‘One day, then, as we were waiting for the moment to pull in the nets, an individual known as Petit-Jean…pointed out to me something floating on the surface of the waves. It was a small can, a sardine can…

A project with an aim of creating a safe, shared, public space for philosophy, The Circle combines contemporary principals of accessible, open source design with critical thinking. Here, there is no ownership, no self, no opinion – only a love of wisdom. There is also no test – wisdom need not be attained, but it must be the goal…