School meals: Government has ‘moral obligation’ says food tsar

Henry Dimbleby, the Government’s food tsar, said ministers need to do more to tackle food poverty Boris Johnson’s own food tsar yesterday accused him of ‘not doing enough’ to prevent children going hungry – as he urged Downing Street to spend £1.2 billion tackling the problem. Henry Dimbleby, the co-founder of the Leon restaurant, demanded … Read more

ANDREW MARR tells how moral values of the Elizabethan age can lift us from our travails today

 Tuesday, June 2, 1953: Coronation Day. With London decked out to celebrate its 27-year-old Queen, there was only one story in town. Or rather, two. Just four days earlier, with perfect timing, two men, hacking through the snow, had made it to the top of the world’s highest mountain. Edmund Hillary was a tall Kiwi … Read more

ANDREW MARR tells how moral values of the Elizabethan age can lift us from our travails today

 Tuesday, June 2, 1953: Coronation Day. With London decked out to celebrate its 27-year-old Queen, there was only one story in town. Or rather, two. Just four days earlier, with perfect timing, two men, hacking through the snow, had made it to the top of the world’s highest mountain. Edmund Hillary was a tall Kiwi … Read more

Obama praises Biden’s ‘moral fiber’ in ad before former president speaks at Dem convention tonight

Joe Biden’s campaign released an ad this week with excerpts from a 2017 Barack Obama speech praising the presumptive Democratic nominee’s character as the former president prepares to endorse his vice president on the third night of the Democratic Convention Wednesday night.  ‘Through his life, he has never once forgotten the values and moral fiber … Read more

Obama praises Biden’s ‘moral fiber’ in ad before former president speaks at Dem convention tonight

Barack Obama praises Joe Biden’s ‘values and moral fiber’ in nationwide ad unveiled before former president endorses his VP at Democratic convention tonight Joe Biden’s campaign released an ad this week with former President Barack Obama showering praise on his former vice president The nationwide ad is part of the campaign’s $28 million ad buy … Read more

Russian ex-spy charged with downing MH17 jet says he ‘feels a moral responsibility’

A Russian ex-spy charged with downing the passenger jet MH17 has said he feels a ‘moral responsibility’ for the disaster. Igor Girkin is one of four people accused of murder over the missile shot in July 2014 which killed all 298 people on the Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine.  Girkin was a commander of separatist … Read more

Vladimir Putin calls for set of ‘moral rules’ to guide interaction between humans and AI

It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our ‘biggest existential threat’ and likened its development as ‘summoning the demon’. He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Professor Stephen … Read more