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Follow Your Bliss – A Follow-Up
‘Advice I Wish I’d Had’ Last February, I responded on Twitter to a tweet from The Times urging young journalists to apply for the Anthony Howard Award. Lucky winners could spend a year writing about →
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To Do Or To Be? – The Sixth Filter
Part 1 – Turning Outside Some 250,000 miles later, having spent 20 minutes waiting for the other guy to get down the ladder, Buzz Aldrin became the second person to walk on the moon, July →
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The Universe Remains Unhurt
And then there was light. But there must already have been space. God would be hard-pressed to reach the light switch without space. The light switch would be hard-pressed to exist. In reality, only two →
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A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Seaside
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 →
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So What Is Objective Journalism?
‘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 →
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The Cold, Hard Facts Of Life – A Reappraisal
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 →
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Empires Of Self
‘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 →
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The Failure Of The Left
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 →
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When The Next Moment Matters More: ‘The Special One’ – Part 3
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 →
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‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost
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 →