Thursday, 16 January 2025

Faux Checks & Unbalanced: US style

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If there was a time when countries around the world were supposed to emulate the US in terms of democratic development, we have surely reach...
Wednesday, 1 January 2025

What is Our Shared Identity?

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Some people have very strong views about who ‘We’ are. They invoke ‘We’ as an identity badge that keeps them apart from various kinds of peo...
Monday, 16 December 2024

Be Careful What You Vote For

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There are, rightly, many forms of guidance and warning regarding activities that affect our wellbeing. What we eat, how often we exercise, t...
Sunday, 1 December 2024

Verulam’s Progress: modernity revisited

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It’s been fashionable for some time to knock modernity.   It is attacked for promoting blinkered technocracy; for oppressive rationalism; fo...
Saturday, 16 November 2024

It Can’t Happen Here … Twice

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Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel,  It Can’t Happen Here , was a dystopian warning against fascist influence in the US. In the story, the nasty co...
Friday, 1 November 2024

The CONflating of Government and Governed

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The people with power to govern a country may claim to act on behalf of those governed in that country, but it is quite possible for the for...
Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Cooperation 101: lessons in co-existence

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If people don’t learn why and how we should secure healthy co-existence, society suffers. The key question is how we are to relate to others...