Common Decency

Dustin Hoffman had an artificial fart balloon with him, which he insisted on showing off

School board in Utah says book containing incest, masturbation, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation unfit. That book? The Bible

Quebec eliminated its Catholic and Protestant school boards in 1997

'For any authentic Christian who takes the faith seriously this is a dreadful misunderstanding and twisting of what scripture is about'

Even if you lived through it, this history of the 1990s is worth your time

'It’s now increasingly about spasm and shouting, and hatred and hysteria'

'Oberammergau caused enormous harm and was, if you like, on the wrong side of history'

'Social media is distended with armchair warriors roaring their defiance and rudeness in a sad, broken attempt to display toughness'

In corner shops the Empire lives, if only in the imagination

'The idea of the “good death” is often a misnomer, even an oxymoron'