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The thought of, say, someone practising air guitar 24/7 should be enough to challenge any assumption that too much improvement[…]
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Joey Barton: What’s behind his Twitter philosophy?
Footballer Joey Barton says that he is not “pretentious or cynical”. If only the same were true of the new[…]
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Reason alone gives us no reason to do anything. Pascal was therefore only partly right. The heart and the head[…]
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All morality and justice require is that relevantly similar cases are treated the same, not that every case of the[…]
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Taking part in two events this year. The first is a discussion on creativity with Andrew Robinson, chaired by Joan[…]
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