I would like to share part of a very recent post from Tomgram, The Nation Institute: “You would never know that, if you left out what might be called self-inflicted pain like death by vehicle (more than 33,000 deaths annually), suicide by gun (more than 21,000 annually) or total gun deaths (30,000 annually), and fatal …
“Conquests and wars of choice always bring unexpected consequences and never bring happiness. The seeking for security with massive armies is an illusion. While you are fighting to be secure, matters at home all too often deteriorate, especially if only a small part of the population benefits from the profits”. (Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592). Montaigne …
“After four decades of EU membership, Britain’s formal relationships with the rest of Europe are governed by a tangle of treaties, institutions and laws. The reach of the EU into British life is so far-reaching that Brexit would require a renegotiation of most of Britain’s international obligations. A new trade agreement would have to be …
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Since 1998 the proportion of girls becoming pregnant between the ages of 15 and 17 in England and Wales fell to less than 2.% in 2014, a drop of almost a half. Pregnancies at this age are generally unplanned and unwanted, and about half end in abortion. The answer has been more sex education and …
To The Guardian If Edward Said “could find no objections to colonialism and imperialism in English literature”, he was quite wrong. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) was a fierce critic of colonial wars. In his Life of Mr Richard Savage, he attacked “the enormous wickedness of making war upon barbarous natives, because they cannot resist, and of …
