The virtue of idleness
It is a sad fact that from early childhood so many of us are tyrannised by the moral myth that it is right, proper and good to wak…
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The crap about passive smoking
A man who used to be the lead singer of a group that got to the top of the Britiishchartsa number of times - Terry Hall of "The Sp…
Sons and clones
Last night I met a guy in a bar and shortly before he passed out he said something that sounded to me like the most lucid thing Id…
What does it mean to be modern?
The word "modern" is used in many different contexts in many different ways. For some people modernisation was synonymous with ind…
The power of advertising
Where would modern society be without advertising? Individual advertisers might think they are just trying to sell a particular pr…
Down with school
Do kids really need to go to school to learn? For most people it isblindingly obviousthat school is the only place where real lear…
Nightmare in a minefield
Among the thousands of frightened US Marines out there in the dark on the night America invaded Iraq, Chuck Hewitt, a veteran at 3…
Terror on the football pitch
The experiences of the members of the Iraqi football team reveal a lot about what life was like in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The …
Chernobyl: the nuclear catastrophe
On April 26 1986, the No 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station in Ukraine blew up. Facing nuclear disaster on an unprecedented …
Love on the rocks
Love stories generally build up to a romantic climax and then end, leaving us with the impression that the couple lived happily ev…
