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Learning death: the importance of connection
(5 minutes) Jenny Sinclair describes how her mother’s efforts to support her dying husband, Jenny’s father, taught her how relationships with each other and with God make it easier to face the natural reality of death. And also about the meaning of life.
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We must learn from Frankenstein’s monster
(8 minutes) We need the humanities more than ever in the 21st century, believes Mary Ann MacDonald.
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Why the search for truth needs more than Google
(8 minutes) Roshaney Aftab thinks we shouldn’t be so sure about what we claim to know.
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Language lessons from Humpty Dumpty, the Holy Innocents and Terry Pratchett
(6 minutes) Toby Lees warns that when we empty language of meaning we destroy others - and ourselves.
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Religious extremism in Africa
(5 minutes) Opposing bigotry and religious extremism in Africa requires cooperation between rationally minded people of all faiths and none, overcoming simplistic narratives, argues Caleb Onah.
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Us or them: understanding the Israeli-Palestinian war
(5 minute read) Firas Modad attempts to offer an objective, ‘steel-man’ perspective of the position of each side in the Israel-Palestine conflict, without endorsing either.
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Putin’s burger and razor-sharp grass: the power of propaganda
(4 minute read) Karolina Jayasinghe examines the ‘precepts of propaganda’ and discovers some of the frightening effects of deliberate misinformation.
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Don’t kill to save the NHS
(2 minute read) Ben Weller argues that proposals to legalise euthanasia in Scotland in order to ease the financial burden on the National Health Service put the institution above human lives.
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Mental health in Africa: the stigma and the suffering
(4 minute read) It’s time to face up to the real mental health issues on the African continent, argues Caleb Onah.
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What’s in a coronation?
(4 minute read) Alex Osborn examines just some of the many considerations which need to be thought about when Charles is crowned king this Saturday.
