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Survivors of the Titanic
Titanic eyewitnesses, footage of the wreckage and in-depth investigations into what happened when the ship hit an iceberg in April 1912
Only this government could miss the open goal of free school meals | Marina Hyde
If it weren’t so serious, there would be deep comedy in seeing Marcus Rashford run rings around Boris Johnson’s lot, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Ypres chestnut tree battered but unbowed by wars wins Belgian award
Tree that has survived bombing and search for firewood is voted country’s tree of the year
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Contemporary Virtue Ethics
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Contemporary Virtue Ethics
Mine-detecting rat wins animal bravery award
Magawa the African giant pouched rat has won a PDSA Gold Medal for his work detecting landmines.
Hilary Gaskin
Perhaps distantly related to the Giant Rat of Sumatra -- that Sherlock Holmes case which was apparently never written up (more's the pity) ...
BBC News - Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal
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Chris Atkins: ‘Reading saved my sanity when I was in prison’
Atkins has written a book about his time in Wandsworth, A Bit of a Stretch, and produced a podcast series which features interviews with 20 ex-offenders
Like a Thames whale, Boris Johnson has got stranded at Westminster | Marina Hyde
He thought making it upriver would fulfil his dream – instead it’s turned into a cruel form of humiliation, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Shakespeare by Boris Johnson | Waterstones
Buy Shakespeare by Boris Johnson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
Matt Hancock, could you honestly think of no one better to run test and trace? | Marina Hyde
With the system in chaos, Dido Harding says the increased demand could not have been predicted. Yes, really, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The days could be numbered for Boris Johnson's Trump tribute act
If the president fails to get re-elected, Britain would be isolated as the only democracy practising tantrum diplomacy, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
Yurt alert: how the holiday PM dodged the great British exams meltdown | Marina Hyde
You’ll have been aware for some time that Boris Johnson is on holiday, but from what? says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Scholar says modern society needs faith to battle 'disenchantment'
David McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He spoke to Crux about "disenchantment" in modern society.
A-Level Results 2020
The events of the past two days, including the unfair and disproportionate downgrading of Holyrood Academy students’ results have led me to write to the school’s local MP, Marcus Fysh. …
A-level fiasco shows up all of this government’s weaknesses
Governments lose popularity when they lose their reputation for competence. You might think the Johnson government barely had any such reputation to lose but, in fact, the prime minister’s main claim
r/likeus - Baby elephant runs straight to his mom after he trips
10,565 votes and 105 comments so far on Reddit
A paean to the paperback
My passion for paperbacks began back in the year 2000 with my first job in book publishing. Prior to that, as a philosophy graduate student, I was enamored of finding hardback editions, ideally jacketed, of the philosophers whose works I was reading.
No Blueprint for Utopia - Los Angeles Review of Books
Do we need a single, coherent, overarching truth in order to live our lives?