31 December 2010
The Food of the Gods
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The following text is from the last page and a half of H G Wells’s The Food of the Gods . When I was twelve I regarded this as the most insp...
24 December 2010
The state’s infidelity
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copy of a letter to an academic Apart from means-testing the pensions, i.e. depriving Charles and me together of about £4,000 per annum, may...
23 December 2010
Benefits Christmas
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The Daily Mail has an article about a mother with four children, living on benefits, who is planning to spend a large sum on giving the chi...
18 December 2010
The right and wrong kinds of inspiration
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Bel Mooney in the Daily Mail wrote recently about the Inspirational Women of the Year awards. (Nobody had nominated me.) Typically, the nom...
14 December 2010
Social outsiders, their parents and their siblings
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I have known some other people who suffered, as I did myself, the consequences of living in a society that is hostile to individuality, espe...
09 December 2010
Socialism and slavery
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So many things turn up, and so fundamental, that I should be writing about and am prevented from doing; but this is just the downfall of civ...
24 November 2010
Can retrospective legislation ever be ‘fair’?
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Herewith some brief notes on some of the issues which arise in connection with recent terrible proposals concerning pensioners. I could and ...
18 November 2010
Open letter to a former associate – an Oxford classics graduate
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We were sorry when you went away. You know we had a high opinion of your abilities and you were a tremendous asset. Since you left things ha...
10 November 2010
A teacher from the Dawn of Time
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As I was precocious and read a lot, when I was ten I was certainly as familiar with the pre-1945 world as someone born ten years earlier tha...
31 October 2010
Simon Cowell's £165m: is it enough?
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Discussing the rivalry of two people called Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller, today's Mail on Sunday Review quotes someone as saying: ‘T...
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