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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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