Alastair Bates

  • Opinion

    Pro bono: better to give discreetly

    30 November 2015

    Doesn’t boasting about doing good to others diminish its value?

  • News

    A just god?

    08 April 2013

    Richard Dawkins would make short work of Jonathan Goldsmith’s musings on religion and science (25 March), ruthlessly dismissing the idea that justice exists beyond us as an ‘eternal lamp’. If science is the ultimate explanation, then justice, exactly like law, is a rapidly changing artificial human construct, determined like everything ...

  • News

    Just say no

    2012-09-17T00:00:00

    Your correspondents (letters, 6 September) argue that public servants should not on grounds of conscience refuse a service to a consumer; and that it is reasonable to dismiss such a public servant. Presumably they would argue for the dismissal of doctors who refuse to carry out abortions. The service they ...

  • News

    Different ethics

    2011-05-26T00:00:00

    Atheism and Christianity produce different law and ethics.