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These days everyone “talks a bit like a management consultant”: it’s symptomatic of the growing “professionalisation” of ordinary life. Thanks to blurring work-life boundaries and the rise of the “self-help” industry, we increasingly view our lives as “projects in which excellence needs to be achieved” – and can be, with “the right toolsets”. Hence the …
When the Royal Society of Literature asked almost 2,000 people if they were able to name an author, 20% said they couldn’t think of one. 25% had not read a book in the past six months.
Nation Down To Last Hundred Grown-Ups According to alarming new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the nation’s population of mature adults has been pushed to the brink of extinction, with only 104 grown-ups remaining in the country today. The endangered demographic, which is projected to die out completely by 2060, is reportedly distinguished …
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Have modern intensive farming methods – many of which solved malnutrition problems when they were first introduced – affected the mineral and vitamin content of what we eat? In 2011, Donald Davis, a now-retired biochemist at the University of Texas, compared the nutrients in US crops from 1950 and 2009, and found notable declines in …
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The Tories pride themselves on being “family-friendly”, says Giles Fraser. Yet their belief in nurturing this precious institution doesn’t extend to “those of us who fall in love with foreigners”. Under a policy introduced in 2012 – and upheld last week by the Supreme Court – Britons applying to bring a non-EU partner or spouse …
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