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There is a school in Washington DC called Benjamin Banneker Academic High School that has the honour of being in the top 2% in the Washington Post list of America’s most challenging schools. It has another distinction – it will not allow personal smartphones, tablets etc in school and has cellphone lockers in the foyer …
The other night my wife and I encountered a taxi driver who was also a philosopher. He wasn’t an Uber driver, but one of the conventional taxi drivers who is probably slowly going out of business. ( I refuse to have any part in deliberately making people more insecure than they already are). He told …
Some while ago a young lady wrote to this blog with a very open and honest request for advice about making friends. She was clearly having a problem finding, and keeping. a friend of the opposite sex. Since this is a constant theme throughout the generations I thought I would repeat my reply to her: …
We’re far too polite in this country. We talk of immigrants having a duty to integrate into society, for instance, but are too embarrassed to insist that they actually learn English, the essential prerequisite of integration. Instead, our public bodies go out of their way to provide expensive translation services. Last year, Crawley Borough Council …
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Tesco is one of the biggest supermarket chains in the world. It has decided to scrap 30,000 of the 90,000 products from its shelves, partly in response to competition, partly because it is making huge losses. Tesco used to offer 28 tomato ketchups and 224 kinds of air freshener. They now understand that customers are …
