29 September 2011
No better way of saying it
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Someone recently wrote the following to me: I guess the fact that you insist that you should have a different social position than the one y...
16 September 2011
Tunnelling out of prison with a spoon
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What was unacceptable to people in my attitude to my situation when I was thrown out at the end of the ruined education is still unacceptabl...
08 September 2011
Michael Gove and the bear pits
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The right every child deserves, to be taught properly, is currently undermined by the twisting of rights by a minority who need to be taught...
02 September 2011
Abortion policy: other motives
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Women considering a termination could be offered independent counselling as part of the biggest shake-up of abortion laws for 20 years. Th...
25 August 2011
“I could do you a lot of harm”
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extract from Letters from Exile In some sort of television drama, a wealthy man was represented as saying: ‘I write the rules, I deal out th...
12 August 2011
Hopping mad
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copy of a letter You said I was ‘hopping mad’ about the item in the paper about rubbishy ‘research’ on out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) b...
07 August 2011
Standards have declined ... a lot
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Standards have declined a lot and in particular there is much less scope for autonomy. I thought of the best sort of university career as ab...
01 August 2011
If you get it, you should come
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Copy of correspondence on Facebook between a reader of one of my books and myself. I continue to get enthusiastic comments from individuals...
28 July 2011
Planning for the future
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There have been many articles recently about the bad treatment of people of pensionable age who get into care homes. Often the appalling tre...
22 July 2011
Out-of-the-body experiences
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Some recent articles about out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) in the Daily Mail demonstrate the usual confusions about the topic. Research ...
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