(Gay) Santa Claus is Coming to Town Surely there's nothing wrong with asking whether Santa Claus could ever be gay, right? Well, not if you're Focus on the Family. For them, you might as well call Santa Claus a murderer. Posting on their blog...

Why is Amanda Knox's conviction so upsetting? A psychoanalyst offers an explanation for America's fury at murder conviction First Post's resident psychobabbler chimes in with yet more 'insights' into the repercussions of the Knox trial. More...

Wootton Bassett, outpost of lost England -  Frank Skinner It’s as if the town has deliberately placed itself in the unquestioning past — in a time before anti-war riots and Iraq inquiries. Wootton Bassett seems, from afar at least, a glimpse of...

The nanny state turns nasty At the start of The Bully State, his rambunctious account of the nanny state’s recent history, Brian Monteith argues that the term ‘nanny’ is too cuddly a word for the alliance of ‘puritans, control freaks and...

U.S. may take new look at `war on drugs' If you had asked me 10 years ago whether the United States will ever change its interdiction-focused counternarcotics policies -- and perhaps even decriminalize marijuana consumption at home -- I would have told...