by Jon Elsby During her lifetime, Iris Murdoch was probably better known – and more highly esteemed – as a novelist than as a philosopher. Privately, Isaiah Berlin once called her ‘a lady not noted for the clarity of her ideas’.’ Yet she taught philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford…
Month: September 2021
Blue tits
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A letter from a revolutionary eco-socialist in pain.
It’s been a very bad month for blue tits, for the poor and for me! By Gordon Liddle Zombie Apocalypse, 18th Sept 2021 Blue Tits tend to have only one brood per year. They feed their young on caterpillars and have to gauge when these are freely available to choose…
Aldous Huxley
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Opposition to Avi Loeb’s unbiased, empirical inquiry
Critical and logical thinking is not genuine Smart Thinking, it is merely a form of computation By Bryan Greetham In the film Free Guy a bank teller discovers he is actually just a character in a video game. This forms the basis of a question that many have asked….
Child Abduction
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Madeleine McCann: Trolling the Victims
A deep dive into a dark world By Carrie Camel A CONCERTED social media campaign has been launched by trolls to destroy a new book on the Madeleine McCann mystery. The aggressive trolling, spearheaded out of Spain by a retired British police detective, comes from a group that has long…
Abbasid
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Afghanistan: debunking the clash of civilisations
“Behind you is the sea, before you, the enemy” By Khaled Diab The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the collapse of the American-backed Afghan government has revived fears that we are in the midst of a monumental clash of civilisations between the West and Islam. In this extract from his…
Catholicism
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The Blairs, Catholicism, and New Labour
by Garry O’Connor The word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin religare, meaning ‘to bind back’, and in the present climate, in a society awash with an ‘all-pervasive claim to victimhood’, and the escalating fear and often reality of violence, a ‘binding back’ in multiple ways, not least culturally, is needed….
Bildungsroman
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Restoration
Harry Greenberg Reflects on a First Creative Project From His Early Teens I have restored the family heirloom. It was handed down and went with the family wherever they went. Some of them said, ‘For God’s sake, leave it behind, lose it in transit; who wants it? Who needs it?’…
Poet-of-Honour
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Poet of Honour: Keki Daruwalla
The recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1984) and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1987) for Asia, Daruwalla is at his best with his poems engaging with nature.
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