Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The echo chamber
The Labour Party leadership contest is in full swing. But can anyone tell what’s going on?
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Find barefoot luxury in colourful and friendly Grenada
“ALL island tours will include five harmonica interludes and palatable humour”. So read the business card of Roger, my driver on the Caribbean island of Grenada. The humour turned out to be more palatable than the harmonica and certainly a lot safer on the road but that did not prevent Roger from giving us a […]
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This is England
All I see is fear Propaganda fuelling fear Introversion leading ignorance Ignorance making idiots Bigots with blinkers Fascists getting famous England eloping Welcome home
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Have Arsenal fans sold out?
A difficult season for Arsenal is drawing to an end – in the circumstances it seems harder than ever to defend the manager, but who are his fiercest critics – and what are the alternatives?
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“He set himself on fire and I couldn’t stop watching”
How I spend my lunch break.
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The Revolting Electorate
The pitchfork of protestation is multi-pronged. But one of the spikes must be more than a spur.
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Why should Britain stay in Europe?
Despite valid reasons for staying in the EU, British voters are dreaming of independence.
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Meeting with Dire Straits as they kick off on World Tour with a gig in Egypt
An odd combination of events took me to Egypt’s Red Sea Riviera last week. One was a desire to escape the grey skies and rain storms of an English January and spend a week in the sun which is after all guaranteed in Egypt, is it not? The second was to find out why the […]
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Lehmann to the rescue: the value of a supreme goalkeeper
My personal choice for the most significant penalty involving Arsenal in recent (-ish) times
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Trumping up fear: can American voters defy their media agenda?
A look at how the current trend of Islamophobia in the United States has many precedents, and how it is in the interests of politicians to fan the flames of bigotry.
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