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Sunday, 15 October 2017

Cooperation: A New Order of Life?

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[A review of ‘Victorian Agitator – George Holyoake: co-operation as this new order of life’, by Stephen Yeo, Brighton: EER Edward Everett Ro...
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Sunday, 1 October 2017

Tech’gemony: the crisis of human redundancy

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Is there anything technology can’t do? Drive cars, fly planes, beat us at chess, accelerate genetic engineering, secure endless supply of r...
Friday, 15 September 2017

Performance Enhancement & Fair Competition

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Taking drugs to improve sporting performance, accessing notes during exams to get better results, or forging ballot papers to secure an elec...
Friday, 1 September 2017

The Will of the People?

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Since the Brexit vote and the election of Trump, we have increasingly heard that the will of the people has been declared, so those in charg...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Impartiality or Bias in Politics

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Imagine last night a couple of public announcements were made. First, the Church of Flying Angels issued a statement about babies being mad...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

The Importance of Being English

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It could be said that the first rule of being English is not to talk about being English. While other people may want to analyse their cult...
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Saturday, 15 July 2017

Isn’t Profit a Tax on Workers?

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The people of a country generate its Gross Domestic Product with the support of the nation’s infrastructure, judicial protection and public ...
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Director of ‘Question the Powerful’ project. Author of academic studies & dystopian novels. Policy expert on communitarian governance. Educator (WEA; Cambridge University; Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, London University).
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