Walking past a packed beach on a sweltering summer’s day, the lefty progressive is like a fish out of water. And by the way, he’s not staying: he’s taking a constitutional after a morning spent →
‘Just The Facts, Ma’am’ So what is objective, impartial journalism? The standard view was offered in 2001 by the BBC’s then political editor, Andrew Marr: ‘When I joined the BBC, my Organs of Opinion were →
The alarm clock rings. I set it myself but it feels like it’s linked to some centralised system ordering the nation’s workforce awake. I swing my feet out into an unwelcoming, cold room; put on →
‘All the harm with which this world is rife,All fear and suffering that there is,Clinging to the “I” has caused it!What am I to do with this great demon?’ (Shantideva, 8th century, ‘The Way of →
In Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness At Noon, N.S. Rubashov, founding father of ‘the revolution’, stands convicted of treason against tyrannical leader ‘No. 1’. But Rubashov knows that his real guilt lies elsewhere: ‘Why had →
By David Edwards Introduction I caught up with an old friend, after many years, on a muggy afternoon in Camden. Outwardly, he seemed the same wonderfully ebullient character he had always been – I →
By David Edwards There is an emptiness at the core of our being. The ego’s great task is to fill that emptiness with evidence that we are ‘someone’ rather than ‘nobody’, that we are →
By: David Edwards It is said that God plays a joke on every new-born, whispering: ‘You are the special one!’ The joke quickly wears thin when we start running up against the seven billion →
By: David Edwards The truth peeks out at us from the most unexpected places. It can be seen, for example, in the empty spaces where one might otherwise hope to find a clock in →
Introduction The aim of Richard Capes’ More Thought blog is ‘to provide detailed audio/video/written interviews with authors of non-fiction social, political, philosophical and environmental books that I consider essential reading’. Here is Richard’s November 10 interview with →
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