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For the year 08 |
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Climate chaos is inevitable, according to Mark Lynas |
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In response to Lola Adesioye's piece on Barack Obama's race being an issue |
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How the struggle for POWER is disguised as SERVICE to society |
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It's the economists, stupid, by Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth |
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In response to what Will Hutton told the Pope about shaping the "new capitalism" |
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According to Observer leader, "the environment must stay at the heart of policy" |
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According to Stewart Wallis, "Only something in the manner of Copernican revolution in our thinking can alter our current, disastrous course." |
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In response to Martin Kettle's analogy of the "false rhinoseros" |
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Colin Pillinger thinks Britain should be leading the search for life on Mars |
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The readers' editor on ... scratching the record and digital footprints |
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"Persian pipelines", another installment in Homo stupidus economicus's tragic tale |
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In response to Andrew Brown's response to Robert Skidelsky's "The apocalyptic mind" |
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Terry Eagleton on "the age-old conflict between civilisation and barbarism" |
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In response to Robert Skidelsky on "The apocalyptic mind" |
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In response to Michele Hanson on sex and royal weddings |
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In response to the readers editor, Siobhain Butterworth, on dealing with online publications |
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England, a politically correct tyranny where people who are NOT bigots are accused by PC types of being bigots in order to silence them . . |
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In response to piece by Benny Morris on the Israeli state's 60th anniversary |
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Knife and gun culture, a particularly Afro-Caribbean response to the madness of what is an essentially European "rat race" ? |
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The pseudo-science of economics |
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The problem with capitalism |
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Society's co-responsibility for criminal behaviour |
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Comparing humanity with a culture of microorganisms |
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The never-ending (?) cycle of political disillusionment |
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The media circus - is just "infotainment" |
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Bullied by a bunch of, mainly white, "moral supremacists" who insist that any form of racial prejudice is "racist" |
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Trident: What is it for? |
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In response to Daniel Cohn-Bendit on 1968 |
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Guardian leader wonders what logical case can be made for keeping the monarchy |
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Return of the population timebomb |
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In response to Ruth Fowler on some of the problems of mixed-race relationships |
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The debacle of the Obama candidacy will expose America for the divided country that it is. |
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The media and film industries are like pimps who have made whores or clients of us all . . . |
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The lure of profit exposes the "cancer" of free-market capitalism |
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Helium too is a non-renewable resource which is being squandered |
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In response to Gary Younge on Barak Obama's candidacy |
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In response to Justin Thacker's criticism of the pleasure principle |
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Guardian leader: Rock Against Racism or Rock Against Reason? |
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Rowenna Davis laments levels of self-harm, but WHY the "rat race" which causes it in the first place, |
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Tahmina Anan has a bad conscience about flying, but don't ask her to give up flying to visit her family |
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Barak Obama's potential to expose, unintentionally, the Great American Lie (in response to piece by Timothy Garton Ash) |
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In response to , England, A nation for the building, by Mark Perrymann |
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In response to George Monbiot's piece on the power play of Rubert Murdoch and the Chinese government |
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In response to Telegraph report on Trevor Phillips' warning of an "immigration cold war". |
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Sue Blackmore on the Pope and Catholic Church, both of which, I suggest, need to be understood from a Darwinian perspective |
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In response to Jeremy Langmead's lament about the burden he is likely to be to his own children |
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In response to Simon Heffer's piece in the Telegraph on Enoch Powell (assuming it's published - which it wasn't!) |
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In response to Andreas Kluth's piece on predicting the future (just my own posts, with improved formating) |
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In response to Alex Singleton piece in defence of free-market capitalism |
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The cost of "green tinkering" is in famine and starvation, says Simon Jenkins |
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In response to Mark Braund's assertion that "progressives" have answers to the current economic crisis |
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Does the idea of human rights help or hinder the environmental movement, asks Conor Gearty |
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A general response to the countless articles on the American primary elections |
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In response to Alex Singleton's argument for an amnesty for illegal immigrants |
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In response to a piece by Prof. Ulrich Beck (just my own posts, plus final one missing from thread) |
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Competition in India is the natural state of being . . . like a crazy Darwinian selection process every day, writes Neil Biswas |
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Madeleine Bunting on the approaching 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech |
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In response to Observer leader: "A healthy economy is impossible with closed borders" |
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In response to Philippe Legrain's argument for mass immigration |
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In response to Guardian leader on the attraction and marketing ploy of a "free lunch" |
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The importance of "boundaries", not just for children |
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In defence of prejudice |
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In response to report of no evidence that net immigration can generate significant economic benefits |
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Gary Younge on how the US remains segregated in practice and attitudes |
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The government's campaign to promote 'Britishness' is an exercise in top-down futility, says Paul Kingsnorth |
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My take on Prof. John Gray's piece on the "Great Game" of geopolitical rivalry |
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In response to an open letter to Barack Obama on the need to tackle the enduring problems of racism and discrimination |
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Jack Straw, justice secretary and Lord Chancellor, refers to "communities" which state and capital have destroyed |
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Understanding the Catholic Church from a Darwinian (human-evolutionary) perspective |
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Like America, China is building a multi-ethnic empire, writes Parag Khanna, and I am inclined to agree |
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In response to Theo Hobson's piece, "Why I am a Christian" |
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In response to the Archbishop's Easter message |
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Observer leader: "Obama's speech on race rings true for Britain, too" |
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Tibetans are not the only ones being oppressed and destroyed by the "utopia of modernity". |
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Something is rotten in the state of (not just) British Journalism |
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Americans are not a "people" or a "nation", but a STATE, the primary purpose of which is to EXPLOIT |
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In response to Gary Younge's criticism of identity politics |
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Marx and Hitler were both wide of the mark with their Darwinian "class" and "race struggles", but not totally wrong. |
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Social cohesion and group (national?) identity are going to become increasingly - ultimately, vitally - important. |
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Margaret Hodge MP on her Barking constituency |
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From ending "white minority rule" in SA to ending "white majority rule" everywhere . . . |
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Identity politics are rife in elections, by Sunny Hundal |
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British identiy is now defined by civic rather than ethnic belonging, says Timothy Garton Ash |
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But is Britishness broken? by Michael White |
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For Queen and country, by Roger Browning |
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Putting European competitiveness ahead of social goals |
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A large section of the population is bewildered by the pace of change, say's Richard Klein |
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A female leading the world's most powerful democracy is intoxicating for many women, thinks Libby Brooks |
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Disaster relief should be for the military |
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How Britain turned its back on the white working class, by Andrew Anthony |
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Modernisation a la carte? by Joschka Fischer |
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Polly Toynbee criticises tax avoidance, and I criticise her avoidance of social reality . . . . |
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Sunder Katwala criticises Trevor Phillips response to success of Barack Obama |
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The civilised world is progressing toward solutions to global warming, claims David Sassoon . . . If only . . ! |
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Our society has no tier between individuals and the central state, by Simon Jenkins |
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Economic inequality, not race, causes cultural division, by Jonathan Rutherford |
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The baby-boomers finally see sense on immigration, by David Goodhart |
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Another attempt to explain the MADNESS of mass immigration and multi-racial/multicultural society |
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Delia Smith's mistake in giving economics (the household of man) priority over ecology (the household of our planet). |
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The objectivity myth (amongst the media) by Jeff Javis |
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Designing evolution, by James Randerson |
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Diversity, not adversity, by Khaled Diab |
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HOW and WHY were mass immigration and mulit-racial/multicultural society imposed on Britain? |
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In response to piece by Simon Jenkins, elaborating on my Darwinian view of society |
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How racist is Britain, asks James Sturcke? |
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Geoffrey Robertson thinks that Britain too should say sorry to Australian Aborigines |
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What is the "power of money" other than the POWER of the most versatile form of POWER? |
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Adam Rutherford, Blogging Darwin 2 . . . |
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How criminals and non-criminals alike are simply exploiting their environment |
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History starts and ends local |
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Why are our most eminent biologists not pointing out the Darwinian basis of capitalism? |
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Adam Rutherford, Blogging Darwin 1 . . . |
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In response to Guardian Leader on reaction to Rowan Williams speach on Sharia law |
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Thinking about 'the unthinkable' by Alan Johnson: academics' vain attempts to combat global poverty |
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Guardian Leader: selection of presidential candidates "hugely beneficial for America, and for rest of the world". Really? |
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Germany's search for home truths continues, 75 years on by Jonathan Steele |
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With everyone out to exploit the system, should council housing be linked to employment? |
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The denied importance of ethnicity in American and British politics |
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In response to Geoffrey Wheatcroft's "Lament for the [nuclear] disarmer" |
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In response to the defence secretary's presentation of Britain's stance on nuclear proliferation |
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Our media have become mass producers of distortion, by Nick Davies: symptoms of a terminally sick civilization |
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In response to a question in the Sunday Telegraph: What must the Tory's do to win my vote? |
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In response to a question in the Daily Telegraph: Who benefits from the UK's benefits system? |
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Welfare is a mess, says David Freud in the Telegraph, and I try to explain why . . . (on my website) |
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Open thread: Should schools be teaching children to love Britain? |
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Phil Hall writes that the "state" is the only really effective power against climate change, but I disagree . . . |
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In response to a piece by Alexander Chancellor: on inherited wealth and "money trees" |
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WHY such persistent folly, and not just from our own government . . . . ? |
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An article by Peter Herbert illustrates the madness of creating a multi-ethnic society |
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Tim Watkin on the impact of the Internet on print media, and me on the impact of adertising on both |
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The importance (or not) of medieval Islamic science (just my own posts, plus final one missing from thread) |
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George Monbiot on the lesser threat of population growth |
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In response to a piece by Andrew Brown on the breakdown of civility |
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In response to a piece by James Ball is support of electorial reform |
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Airport expansion: Why is the picture "blurred"? |
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Remembering the Holocaust, by Stephen Smith |
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In praise of ... the Eyak language: "Languages, like peoples, are in a constant battle for survival." |
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To B(BC) or not to B(BC), that is the question . . . . ? In response to an article by Polly Toynbee |
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Only science can save us from climate catastrophe, by John Gray |
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Mum's the word for racist, by Victoria Coren |
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Iris scans, liars and exploiting the socioeconomic environment |
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Do you trust the BBC, askes Sunny Hundal |
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In response to a suggestion, by Timothy Garton Ash, for an international anthem |
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Given America's well-known race problems, what induced Britain to become a multi-racial country too? |
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The social solidarity on which Britain's welfare state was based no longer exists |
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Nation-state politics can only fail the problems of the modern world, by Ulrich Beck |
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Paul Harris laments the political racial divide in South Carolina |
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Blame the greens when the lights go off, by Nick Cohen |
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Intensive farming saves lives, by Jay Rayner |
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The term "progressive(s)" just means "us" or "our" in the "them and us" dichotomy so deeply ingrained in human "prime ape" behaviour |
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Why do we always speak of "man", when what we are usually referring to is Europeans? |
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A "racist" response to the Guardian's (in) Praise of... Tenzing Norgay |
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Tony Blair's new million dollar part-time job with JP Morgan, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
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My main objection to nuclear power. In response to piece by Tony Juniper |
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Gordon Brown: the rise of the clan chief, by Tim Luckhurst |
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A "Triple Alliance" between capital, the state, and the political left is driving the MADNESS of mass immigration (on my webpage) |
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Prof. Prem Sikka's reporting of accounting practices supports a Darwinian view of society |
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Untrue or just inconvenient - we are in danger of concentrating too much on climate change |
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In response to the American election circus |
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In response to Mike Marqusee, who would have us believe he doesn't have a bone of racial prejudice in his body |
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Exorbitant CEO pay a logical conseqence of Darwinian socio-economics |
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A 'frenemy': someone who is both friend and enemy . . . . |
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Which would you rather subsidise, nuclear or renewable? by Jeremy Leggett |
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"Racism" on the cricket field - just part of the struggle for the "moral high ground" |
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Helen Joyce is irritated by the mediocre who identify with more capable members of their gender or ethnic group |
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Having kids really does make you think more about the world's future, by Leo Hickman |
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Racial emancipation and sexual liberation have become mainstream. . . . . And how they have been PERVERTED and EXPLOITED! |
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We, natives, need mass immigration like we need a hole in the head . . . ! |
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Selfish capitalism is bad for our mental health by Oliver James |
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Stagflation cometh by Joseph Stiglitz |
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The disconnect between awareness of climate change and the lifestyle changes necessary to combat it, by Anthony Giddens |
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The ideological divide, by Prof. A C Grayling |
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Fight poverty, not the poor, writes Peter Hain, secretary of state for work and pensions |
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George Monbiot on the need for constitutional reform |
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