What is reality?
The scientific worldview which so dominates our contemporary consciousness is not as innocent as it may at first seem. Arguably, i…
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Just dreaming: The two poles of contemporary political life
In the West, ideas about politics basically come down to a stark contrast between the dreamers who look forward to a world of peac…
Laptops for the hungry
One of the problems faced by the poorest countries in the world is that of child labour. Children who ought to be at school gettin…
Fullspate EFL/ESL Materials
Focus on the University of Michigan ECPE exam In countries like Greece the Michigan ECPE has now become the most popular EFL/ESL t…
The real Big Brother
For many people Big Brother was the figure behind the cameras on the hugely popular reality TV prgramme of the same name. A few pe…
Anatomy of Fascism
In today's globalising consumer culture some people are worrying about the loss of their national identity. Life might be easier a…
The case against spanking
We now know that the parents of Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler never hesitated to use corporal punishment to teach their delicate…
What we've lost
Riverbend, 'Girl Blog from Iraq' as she dubs herself, was a computer programmer before the war - not any more. In her diary of the…
The younger boy and the older woman
here have been a number of cases in the courts of older women having affairs, including sex, with boys who are below theage of con…
The death of Art and the birth of pop
When Da Vinci unveiled his Mona Lisa the world changed - civilisation took another significant step forward. Now the Mona Lisa is …
