There are plenty of commentators and columnists who look around the world and see nothing but moral decline. They point to the 'breakdown' of things they like and the 'rise' of things they don't like. Is society any less moral than it ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/year-of-jubilee.aspxMon, 14 May 2012 12:41:53 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/year-of-jubilee.aspxIt's going to be a crazy summer in London. The extra bank holidays at the beginning of June to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee give republicans a chance to go away for a few days. The rest of the capital's population will get a...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/axis-of-evil.aspxMon, 14 May 2012 12:41:53 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/axis-of-evil.aspx'I have always struggled with the phrase 'the banality of evil'.  Very often evil has a glamour, as the Anders Behring Breivik trial in Oslo has shown. It is, of course, a specious attraction, but there will be those who are as ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/surfers'-paradise.aspxMon, 14 May 2012 12:41:53 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/surfers'-paradise.aspxI don't know if such things occur around your house, but the other day at my averagely-appointed one-bedroom East London dwellspot of reveries (do get in touch if you need somewhere for the Olympics), I was doing some hoovering when I accide...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/party-pieces.aspxMon, 14 May 2012 12:41:52 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/jun-2012/columnists/party-pieces.aspxThe coalition government has hit a mini-iceberg, but not one that is likely to sink it any time soon.

The Tories have taken a big hit in England and have become vulnerable to the xenophobic politics behind UKIP. The Liberal Democrat...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/blood-lines.aspxFri, 27 Apr 2012 12:09:49 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/blood-lines.aspxI'm not very myself today.  In fact, I've just been frozen out of my own bank account due to not being able to prove that I am me.  

Being the best person there is at being me is one of those platitudinous but useful...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/not-at-the-races.aspxFri, 27 Apr 2012 12:09:48 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/not-at-the-races.aspx

There are two things that I'm prepared to admit that I am prejudiced against: dancing and horse racing. There is a simple reason for this. Both of these things were unwelcome intrusions into my childhood viewing habits. Allow me ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/party-pieces.aspxFri, 27 Apr 2012 12:09:47 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/party-pieces.aspxIn the run-up to the second anniversary of the coalition, there has been renewed speculation about the health of the Cameron-Clegg project.

The coming together of an administration forged out of the Tory failure to gain a majo...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/making-a-mark.aspxFri, 27 Apr 2012 12:09:47 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2012-/columnists/making-a-mark.aspxTwo women I was talking with recently said that it was easier for them at work to say that they were lesbian than to admit that they went to church. This seemed to me a striking and contemporary reflection. One works in the NHS ...]]>