Napoleon's New Rep
Who would have thought it, one day, I would come to see Napoleon and his legacy with disdain! It feels as though it was only yesterday I...
RTICLES
Usually related to education, philosophy or society, I write these to give form to some of things I grapple with. If they can spur on debate and reflection so much the better.
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Is War Finally Loosing Out to Peace?
Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity is convincing me that it is. Not yet half-way...
The Human Billboard
As you take your seat on the tube for your morning commute, you find yourself distracted by a flashing light. Glancing up from your...
On Greatness
What is 'greatness'? A quality, surely. Is it something we are born with or without, something we inherit, is it something that can be...
TED's Timidity
A year on, and it’s still as embarrassing as ever. TED sponsored a TEDx talk in Whitechapel, London, in Jan 2013, with the theme...
Russell Brand & the Swiss Referendum
I wrote a post about Russell Brand’s second Paxman interview a few weeks ago, and made the elementary bloggers mistake of not reading...
The Twit Review
Each and every film poster you see nowadays will invariably quote the words "brilliant", "wonderful" and "amazing", above or under a row...
Russell Brand's Revolution
The celebrity has once again grabbed the headlines by virtue of guest-editing this week’s New Statesman, with Revolution at the heart of...
Time On Our Side
This title appears a little optimistic. In fact, it could do with an interrogation mark; that would make a little more sense. For...
Horse Shit
Horse meat has grabbed much of the media's attention recently, to the dismay and outrage of its innocent consumers. How on earth,...
