Sunday, October 27, 2019

For new readers

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The clocks went back an hour during the night – as they did ten years ago as I was starting this blog which then bore the name of “Carpa...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

A Rare example of inter-disciplinarity

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Readers know how distasteful I find the ever-increasing narrowness of academic disciplines. The very second post this year's blog posed...
Friday, October 25, 2019

The “Light” that Failed

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Communism was, of course, for that special generation of Western intellectuals from the 1930s-1950s “ the God that failed ” and there is in...
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Thursday, October 24, 2019

The God that failed – in central Europe

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In just a couple of weeks it will be the 30 th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – with the precise date of any single country’s ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Scepticism and Satire - Glossaries to help the fight against the power elites

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I’ve just uploaded a new version of my little book Just Words – how language gets in the way – and would invite you all to dip in…. Hi...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

What Might Have been

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This evening should see the definitive British parliament vote on Brexit and we have today also learned that the government intends to hav...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

The Meaning of “it”

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It was Bill Clinton who, during the Lewinsky impeachment , famously answered “it all depends what you mean by "is”. That is the stage ...
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