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The history of Britain’s quangos is a vexed one. They exist in a space where independence and unaccountability overlap – designed to work at ‘arm’s length’ from ministerial influence, depending on your perspective they can be regarded as released from political interference or as removed from democratic accountability. It is an open secret that, as with any . . . → Read More: Independently illegitimate? “One hundred years of refusing to acknowledge the world outside of their village had destroyed them; and races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on Earth.” BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up over two months ago now, and since that time the Macondo oil field has . . . → Read More: 100 years of oil spills? The human brain is a wonderful instrument. Despite being ostensibly evolved to deal with a set of tasks that to a very great extent most modern people are in general not called upon to perform, it has excelled it’s design specification with a powerful aplomb, giving us such wonderful insights into pure mathematics, philosophy and music . . . → Read More: The thinker thinks, the prover proves |
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