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The Coronavirus and ‘The Great Operation’
(10 minute read) Rosemary Milne offers useful advice on how to remain fully human in a digital age.
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Suffocating in the echo chambers of modern life
(7 minute read) Zoë Dukoff-Gordon exposes the invisible walls we build around our minds without realising it … and offers a surprising way to escape.
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The hidden cost of going green
(7 minute read) Francesca Omon looks beyond the rhetoric and discovers why the green revolution may not be enough to save the planet.
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What would Poirot do?
(6 minute read) Kenson Li learns lessons for lockdown from the great fictional sleuth.
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The efficiency of evil: Auschwitz and the detail of genocide
(7 minute read) Ronnie Convery is shocked by the minutiae of a death camp and its hideous attention to detail.
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Corruption and hunger for power … the enemies within which hamper Africa’s future
(11 minute read) Joshua Nwachukwu highlights a recent coup in Africa which made little impact on world news but exemplified the greatest challenge facing the continent.
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Time to make peace with nature … but how?
(7 minute read) Richard Bauckham ponders the great challenge to creation posed by our everyday destructiveness.
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Grimy glory: lessons in beauty from sewage-plants and run-down buildings
(7 minute read) Self-confessed commoner Adam Brocklehurst explains how the aristocratic Lucinda Lambton has helped him see the world around him with new eyes.
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On graves and greatness
(4 minute read) Walking through graveyards in Scotland and Italy becomes a surprisingly life-affirming experience for Leonard Franchi.
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Guarding the guardians: what constitutes ‘good’ religion?
(12 minute read) Having argued that not all forms of religion are positive, Joseph Evans proposes criteria to distinguish the good from the bad.
