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  • Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs

    Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs0

    It is an old, old story. When you push water down into the bathtub, some of it inevitably seeps out and wets the washroom floor. In the same way, raising taxes to inordinate levels means rich people inevitably leave. The actor Gerard Depardieu moved from France to Belgium. The tennis player Bjorn Borg emigrated from

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  • Union Boss Leading Teachers Strike Seems to Forget About the Kids

    Union Boss Leading Teachers Strike Seems to Forget About the Kids0

    Minneapolis teachers were striking for a fourth consecutive day Friday on bridges and overpasses throughout the city. Some 4,500 members of the Minneapolis Teachers Federation and Education Support Professionals are demanding more compensation, improved working conditions, and smaller class sizes. “Our fight is against the patriarchy, our fight is against capitalism, our fight is for

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  • Unhappy? It Might Be a Sign of Intelligence

    Unhappy? It Might Be a Sign of Intelligence0

    We’ve all either heard or posed the question: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? But a more appropriate question might be, If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy? An article last month in the business section of The Atlantic tackles that question in an interview with Raj Raghunathan, author of If You’re

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  • Unfortunately, Most Voters Are ‘Idiots’

    Unfortunately, Most Voters Are ‘Idiots’0

    On the first Tuesday of November millions of Americans will turn out to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, most of them are probably idiots. Now, I don’t mean that as an insult based on the modern sense of the word “idiot”, i.e., someone who is simple and stupid. It’s more of a lament based on the ancient

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  • Unfortunately, Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

    Unfortunately, Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter0

    Human beings today now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. That’s what a study conducted by Microsoft last year found. A goldfish loses focus after nine seconds. In our age of smartphones, however, the average person today can only focus for eight seconds. That’s a dramatic change from 2000, when the average human

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  • Understanding Why Some Female Teachers Have Sex With Students

    Understanding Why Some Female Teachers Have Sex With Students1

    More than 100 women were convicted of sexual offences in the UK in 2015. The figures, obtained via a freedom of information request, show the number of convictions almost trebled in a decade. Among those convicted were a number of school staff, including teachers, a head teacher and a teaching assistant. The attractive female teacher

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