CELIA GREEN
26 November 2008

Penalising foresight and determination

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The state pension is to rise by the (unrealistically low) official rate of inflation. ‘Pension credit’ is also to increase, and the Chancel...
14 November 2008

The Oxford media

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Copy of a letter sent several weeks ago by my colleague Dr Charles McCreery to a presenter on Radio Oxford, to which he has had no reply. I ...
08 November 2008

Children and Mill’s Principle of Liberty

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As quite a young child I was under the impression that it was a basic principle of accepted morality and legislation that an individual'...
07 October 2008

Wittgenstein's Papierkorb

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The following fragments have been found in Wittgenstein's wastepaper basket ( Papierkorb ): * What does a person mean when he says he is...
29 September 2008

Accidental associations

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copy of a letter The last time I met you, you asked why I went to the Society for Psychical Research if I was not interested in what they d...
23 September 2008

The Establishment and I

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I recently read a definition of Establishment as ‘a group of people who hold power in a society and dominate its institutions’ ( Daily Mail ...
09 September 2008

Stigmata

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Recently I watched a film about the Gospel of Thomas called Stigmata (released in 1999). It was apparently quite successful commercially a...
28 August 2008

Reflection of the month

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Communism and Capitalism Capitalism depends on certain aspects of the conditions in which we live – on the structure of time and the conserv...
22 August 2008

Attitudes to academic appointments

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I think that the academics at the Society for Psychical Research were more uninhibited and less rationalised about what went on in connectio...
18 August 2008

State pensions and Trojan Horses

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Hundreds of thousands of pensioners are living in poverty because they are not claiming the benefits due to them, official figures suggest. ...
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