How safetyism killed playtime

There’s a certain type of British festival, where middle-class, middle-aged parents relive the glory days with their children in tow. It’s all cult bands from the Nineties, craft ales, and fairy lights in the broadleaved woodlands to make the walk …

Why are women ditching the pill?

Like many women, I’ve tried most contraceptive methods. I soldiered on with Microgynon and Cerazette for years longer than I should have, and spent multiple afternoons in the university surgery with an infected implant. The copper coil was a medieval …

Life on Israel’s home front

By choice, I’ve worked with victims of war and atrocity. During my lengthy career as a psychologist, I’ve cried with scores of Holocaust survivors and their children. I’ve visited the killing fields of Poland and written extensively on the psychological …

The Wheels of Life

My professional pursuits have provided me with extraordinary opportunities to live in foreign places for fairly extended periods of time, a gift for which I am extremely grateful.

Over the course of my decades of travel, I have watched with …