The Moral Maze: AWay of Exploring Christian Ethics

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While hardly rolling off the tongue, the formula roughly translates to mean that we should lower our expectations to be happy – but not so low, and for so long, that it makes us unhappy. Some think that there is too much stuffiness about happiness, that there is nothing selfish about self-care, and that people should be free to set the bar as high as they wish and explore personal fulfilment however they chose. Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an acclaimed study of Britain's educational and moral crisis, which provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of parents. The idea is to reduce the damaging effects of class-based prejudice across education, work and health, and create a fairer society. It’s one thing for computers to process our knowledge, but quite another when a machine starts to teach itself.

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Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so. Originally produced at the BBC North West's New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road in Manchester, the programme production base is Salford Quays. One group has signed a letter expressing concern that student opposition to her invite goes against free speech.Cancel culture’ has become such a common term that it is not always easy to understand what precisely it means and what its implications are for society. Community sentences, they insist, send out the wrong message to criminals and open the door to further lawbreaking. He has won numerous awards including Radio Broadcaster of the Year, the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and the BAFTA News Award. The British Psychological Society has launched a campaign to make social class a legally protected characteristic, like sex, race and disability.

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But there are some who can give us real-life examples of the human capacity to rise above anger and grief for a greater good. At the beginning of 2003 he switched to the Guardian and the Observer, and in June 2005 to The Times where he is a columnist. There are those who believe that directly experiencing a social issue makes for better, more empathic, political decision-making. Is there a difference between a person being accountable for their behaviour and being accountable for their ideas?

They also need limits and it’s surely the job of adults to impose them, but where should the line be drawn? We might feel instinctively that adult children have obligations to their aging parents, simply by virtue of them being a parent. Offering informed opinions from every angle onto a relevant subject, the guests get questioned and respectfully challenged by the panelists, people well prepared, knowledgable and prominent on their field. This week the poet and teacher Kate Clanchy said she considered suicide after parting company with her publisher.

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The UK’s prisons are full, their corridors are understaffed and their Victorian buildings are crumbling. This week’s rail strike is expected to be the biggest in 30 years with only a fraction of services running and widespread disruption. But the presenters of other programmes are free to express their political views, as long as they don’t “endorse or attack a political party. It moved to Wednesday evenings from 13 May 1998, in the 1998 schedule changes, with a repeat of the forty-five-minute programme on Saturday night at 10:15 pm.We worry that AI might take over our jobs, but should we really be worrying that it might replace humanity altogether? Is a strike still morally acceptable if it causes widespread misery or severely damages the economy, or if lives are lost as a result? The scale of the attack was unprecedented, but the cycle of violence and escalation is all too familiar in this land that has been contested for more than a century.

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Whether its waiting for an operation, mental health support, getting a GP appointment or just hoping an ambulance arrives in time, our cherished and beloved NHS is letting many people down, in spite of the heroic efforts of its staff.He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London). Critics of the President’s handling of the crisis, however, would argue that it should not have taken a threat to his own health for him to “get it”, and that empathy is something you’ve either got or you haven’t. Conversely, there are those who argue that younger generations have been failed by a system that is rigged to favour the interests of older people; that they should play more of an active role in our democracy because their concerns are the concerns of the future; and that they are more likely to make better judgements about society because they are far more connected to the world and aware of their own values than previous generations.