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To The Daily Telegraph As far as I’m aware, pop concerts do not include some classical music to make sure that they satisfy all tastes. Why, then, do the BBC Proms seemingly have to appeal to an ever-wider audience? Jacky Ellinger, Southampton Note to non-British readers: The BBC Proms series is the biggest and longest …
Yesterday I quoted a Dutch newspaper that was advocating a basic income for everyone. Imagine what the anti-tax crowd would make of this! Communism! It is as likely to happen as a government run by Epicureans. I’m sure the early communists had a similar idea, but to force it through they felt constrained to collectivize …
In a rich society like ours, everybody ought to be able to live comfortably. And maybe the best way to ensure this is just to give out “free money”: to guarantee every citizen a “basic income”. Most economists – and most taxpayers – are aghast at this idea, assuming that “if you hand people free …
Cardiologists at Oxford University have found in a recent study that when people were played certain classical works, it coincided with a reduction in blood pressure and heart rate. The pieces in question included excerpts from works by Verdi, Beethoven and Puccini that had in common a repeated ten-second rhythm, matching phases in which the …
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More than 200,000 people of Haitian descent are facing deportation in the Dominican Republic. The deportation is certainly in violation of international law, but in a sense that is irrelevant. It is yet another example, along with the Rohingas and others, of the growing effects of climate change, scarce resources, and too many mouths to …
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