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 →
By: David Edwards It is one of the wonders of the internet that anyone can communicate with pretty much anyone, more or less instantly. Over the last decade, we at Media Lens have received thousands →
By: David Edwards What lies at the heart of man? Anything? Nothing? Nothing much? Many of us believe that the human heart is a wasteland, a kind of abyss into which we might fall. In →
By: David Edwards The Power Of Pain In his book, The Art Of Seduction, Robert Greene outlines a strategy for conquering romantic “targets”: “The greatest mistake in seduction is being too nice. At first, perhaps, →
By: David Edwards and Matthew Bain On 2nd December 2007 Media Lens were presented with the Gandhi International Peace Award by Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq and himself a recipient of the →
By: David Cromwell Introduction One of the major events of the twentieth century, with reverberations that reach today, is the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. Before the bomb was used, the →
By: David Edwards A New Set Of Wants In Part 1 of this Cogitation, I suggested that we are often plagued by uncontrolled thoughts, and asked if it might be possible to train our minds →
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