The building of walls has been very much in the news over the past week or so. There is, of course, the famous or infamous wall that President Elect Trump has promised to build along the Mexican border. And then there are the recent comments by Pope Francis, seen as a thinly-veiled intervention by the
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“No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: she is spherical, like a globe.” Dromio of Syracuse referring to the great girth of the future wife of his lost brother in The Comedy of Errors “Thou art a Castilian King urinal!” – The Host to Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The day before the 2016 election, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran a revealing story on the state of rational discourse in today’s schools. The story centered on two young men – Elijah Rockhold and Sam Buisman – from the public high school in Chanhassen, a suburb of the Twin Cities. Although Rockhold and Buisman are
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The last two years has seen an explosion of dating apps such as Tinder and Precisely. Predictions about the impact of these apps can veer into the extreme, many foreseeing a breakdown in communication and “traditional” dating practices. Amid these calls, it can be observed that this is somewhat premature. Yes, dating apps have enjoyed
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In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election, the US media has embarked on a flurry of self recrimination. Much of what they discuss applies equally to the UK media and the problems with news coverage of the EU referendum. There is no doubt the two big political campaigns of 2016 have thrown into stark relief
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Many people depend upon polls to predict the outcome of elections. What pollsters do appeals to all the prejudices of the post-Enlightenment modern mind: They employ a distinctive technique (thank you Rene Descartes), they focus on empirical evidence (thank you Francis Bacon), and they invoke the mathematical forms of statistics (thank you John Graunt and
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