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Thursday, 17 December 2020
Why we shouldn't rush to get back to normal
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Life has changed in 2020. That's stating the obvious, of course. I enjoyed my life in 2019 and previous years a lot more than I've e...
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Are drag queens as offensive as blackface?
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Over the past year or so, some people in the media have apologised for performing in blackface. In this post I'm going to argue that dra...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020
The US election in Venn diagrams
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Today is election day in the US. At times, it seems to dominate the news media more so than the UK election did! I thought it would be fun t...
Saturday, 24 October 2020
Essential shopping and the sorites problem
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This week, as part of its "firebreak" lockdown, Wales announced that supermarkets will no longer be allowed to sell non-essential ...
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Will people of the future tear down our statues?
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Black Lives Matter protesters tear down statue of slave owner Edward Colston I've written elsewhere about why we shouldn't airbrush...
Sunday, 3 May 2020
Lives versus livelihoods
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Picture the scene... you're standing on the edge of a precipice. There's been an accident, and someone is hanging off the edge, bare...
Saturday, 2 May 2020
How inductive reasoning failed me with coronavirus
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In February, I began writing a blog post saying that coronavirus would turn out to be a storm in a teacup, and although a few people would d...
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