CELIA GREEN
12 February 2017

A poem about Saint Paul

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From Saint Paul by F.W.H. Myers: Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest Cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny: Yea with one voice, O...
06 February 2017

Brexit and European visitors

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Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty [...] triggers the start of a two-year process of exit talks before the UK is expelled from the 28-member bl...
02 February 2017

‘I will defend to the death your right to say it’

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The epithet ‘I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it’ is sometimes attributed to Voltaire, but first ...
03 December 2016

Civilization and inequality

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Sphinx and pyramid at Giza In Egypt’s palmy days, industry, foreign commerce, and successful wars poured untold wealth into the coffers o...
24 September 2016

Poverty and servants in The Railway Children

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In Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children , when the family becomes worse off and leaves their salubrious house in a London suburb, the life wh...
29 July 2016

Revolutionaries at the BBC

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Bush House in London Paul Kriwaczek’s book In Search of Zarathustra , about the prophet Zoroaster, refers to the overthrow of the Shah of...
17 July 2016

H.G. Wells, Hayek and the ‘rights of man’

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H.G. Wells included a ‘Declaration on the Rights of Man’ in his book The New World Order , published in 1940. This contains, for example, th...
10 July 2016

Merlin and the servant problem

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In C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength , the druid Merlin, having been woken from over a thousand years of suspended animation, is talking to...
10 March 2016

Taxation and freedom

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Herbert Spencer on the idea that tax erodes freedom, from his Principles of Ethics : Money taken from the citizen, not to pay the costs of ...
29 February 2016

Sir Michael Marmot, genetics and health

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Were we to find a chemical in the water, or in food, that was damaging children’s growth and their brains worldwide, and thus their intellec...
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