Friday, 15 January 2016

Flag, Freedom, & Family …

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Think about ‘Flag’, ‘Freedom’, ‘Family’, not to mention, ‘God’, ‘Enterprise’, and ‘Traditional Values’. In many contexts, they conjure up p...
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Friday, 1 January 2016

Goodbye Utopia, Hello Synetopia

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“For, when everyone’s entitled to get as much for himself as he can, all available property, however much there is of it, is bound to fall i...
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Political Education with a Twist

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Carl von Clausewitz infamously said, “war is merely the continuation of politics by other means”, but in truth, politics is the avoidance of...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Snide & Prejudiced: a tale of constitutional shenanigans

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a government in possession of a slim majority must be in want of more power. But when that pow...
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Sunday, 15 November 2015

The ‘All-or-Nothing Fallacy’ of Polarised Politics

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Political discussions are too often misdirected, intentionally or otherwise, to fall down the hole of the All-or-Nothing Fallacy. Here are...
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Sunday, 1 November 2015

Synetopia: progress through cooperation

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Advocates for progressive improvement, from the Enlightenment philosophers [1] to later cooperative and communitarian reformists [2], have b...
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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Let’s Come Clean about Nuclear Waste

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A relatively small amount of material can generate a vast amount of energy, without polluting the atmosphere or depleting the precious ozone...