21 February 2012
Fat cats and starved cats
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text of a letter to an academic Everything goes from bad to worse, as it is intended to do. Professor David Eastwood, the vice-chancellor of...
13 February 2012
No reprieve for the middle classes
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Middle-class families face a battering in next month’s Budget after the Chancellor ruled out major changes to his plans to slash child benef...
22 January 2012
How to stay alive longer
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Elderly should be encouraged to downsize ... [Housing Minister Grant Shapps] said that authorities should encourage elderly homeowners to mo...
19 January 2012
Professorship in Education
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Below is the text of a letter of application to Oxford University recently sent with regard to a professorship in Education. Dear ... I am a...
02 January 2012
No escape from state education
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The basic moral principle is that one should avoid imposing on other people one’s own interpretation of the existential situation, and overr...
01 January 2012
The Welfare State and the exponential function
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. (Professor Albert Bartlett) I do not...
31 December 2011
Who cares?
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Recent remarks by the Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow, express the warmest goodwill towards unpaid carers who help elderly relatives. B...
29 December 2011
The welfare wolves close in
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As has been pointed out, pensioners are fair game for anything because they constitute a population with an above-average IQ. At the start o...
23 December 2011
Lucid dreams, Disney, and a new philosophy department
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copy of a letter to a salaried philosopher I suppose a Philosophy Department would be the most obvious thing for my incipient (squashed and ...
16 December 2011
NHS budget ‘to rise for ever’
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Andrew Lansley last night warned that NHS spending may have to rise for ever, simply to keep pace with rising life expectancy. The Health S...
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