Sublime

Just as Terry Wogan said of his days as a radio DJ, ‘You are not talking to an audience, you are talking to one person – and they are only half listening anyway.’

Locke’s daring idea that we are propelled through life by nothing more than an impetus towards pleasure and away from pain, and that we should make our decisions by calculating the balance of both. There is an echo of Epicurus in this rational, materialist approach to making ethical choices. Our lives, Locke said, reminding us of that hedonic tread