Q&A: Who is starting all those wildfires? We are

Palliative care is not just for those who are dying.

And so at our next appointment we were greeted by two paediatricians who wanted to talk to us. They asked us what was going on. It felt natural to tell them our story. They listened intently, and I realised the purpose of this questioning much later: they wanted to get a sense of us first. “What would you like to happen?” I choked up in tears. I hadn’t told anyone about my wish to meet her, to ...

Who are we?

Who are we?

Who are we?

Who are we? Where did we come from? How religious identity divides and damns us all.

Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, now established, is the only workable explanation we have for the remarkable fact of our own existence, the vast diversity of plant and animal life, the compelling illusion of design in nature, and the architecture of the human mind. We are risen apes, not fallen angels. Our different races and ethnicities hide an essential truth: we are all African...