When we think about pollution we usually point to foul air, unsafe water, or toxic waste, says Robert Hume.

THE lovely people at Penguin sent a book about the Roman philosopher, Seneca, written by a professor of classics, Emily Wilson.

A Preparation for Death

THERE’S a cartoon from the New Yorker magazine which shows two middle-aged men languidly sipping cocktails in front of a fake chateau.

MANY Catholics think the church has never changed its teaching on many moral issues, and argue that its teachings are “based on a correct understanding of the human according to unchanging natural moral law” (Paul Kokoski, Irish Examiner letters, June 18).

A woman who swapped beds with another patient in their hospital room so she could be nearer the window died after receiving the wrong type of blood during surgery.