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Sport and Bodybuilding 23 Apr 2012 | 12:19 pm
A year or so back, the BBC showed a series of lectures by Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel. The series as a whole was fairly pedestrian (which was fair enough, the lectures were supposed to be intr...
Does a theory of intervention require a moral component? 12 Apr 2012 | 10:25 am
I’d been meaning to write this post for a while, but life got in the way. ——— A couple of weeks ago, Aaron Ellis had an interesting piece up over at Egremont, the blog of the Tory Reform Group, in w...
Nick Cohen knows nothing about religious philosophy 1 Apr 2012 | 03:37 am
Via Harry’s Place, I see that Nick Cohen has been writing stupid stuff about religion. The best thought has moved beyond religion. It is for this reason that religion, which once inspired man’s most...
Where is Eric Pickles? 30 Mar 2012 | 02:43 am
The past few days have been an amusing time to be a Labour supporter. I say amusing rather than great because it seems to me that some of the issues (pasty tax, Francis Maude not knowing what a Jerry...
The UK Budget 2012 and its putative effects on entrepreneurship 28 Mar 2012 | 04:50 am
Here’s an argument about the Budget that I have not heard addressed. This could mean one of several things – it might be the case that it has been addressed and I just have not read/heard it being ad...
I’m Back 28 Mar 2012 | 04:50 am
http://youtu.be/lgk-Gu-4MX8 So, after a long hiatus I’m back. Hopefully I’ll blog semi-regularly (only on my days off work though). note: my linking to a clip from Terminator 3 is not be taken of a...
Uniforms and religious “special treatment” 18 Apr 2011 | 09:18 am
Shuggy, with reference to the recent French burqa ban, asks: 1) Why is it only a problem when the state does it, when even in the freest societies workers and school-children regularly have to confor...
Help Prisoner Ben 28 Aug 2010 | 07:39 am
Ben Gunn, the author of the well-worth-reading Ben’s Prison Blog is in need of funds to continue his PhD. My friend Paul Sagar lays out the case for helping him better than I can. He writes: The de...
The Monarchy and Contemporary Political Philosophy 27 Aug 2010 | 01:26 am
Adapted from a discussion elsewhere. ——— I contend is that there is no credible view in contemporary political philosophy that can support the actually existing monarchy in the UK. There are some vi...
Prisoners and Pensions 16 Jul 2010 | 04:17 am
The excellent Prisoner Ben writes: One of the least expected effects of this sentence is that I won’t have a pension in my dotage. As pensions rely upon National Insurance contributions, I’m stuffed....
