A tax on red meat?
That won’t save the planet – or do much to improve our health. The problems associated with the production of red meat are far too complicated for a simplistic sin levy.
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In praise of true diversity
Widespread suspicion and even hostility to diversity ought to make us rethink what it really means. Our problem is not that we have too much diversity but that we don’t have enough. The groups into which we divide our communities are too broad and not sufficiently fine-grained. True friends of diversity and of the British values of eccentricity and difference need to realise that every time we privilege the group we disadvantage the unique individual.
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The influential wrongness of AJ Ayer
Ayer’s work tells us important things about the shortcomings of Anglophone philosophy. Blog for Prospect.
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Is reason the slave of the passions?
In debate with Simon Jenkins about David Hume’s bold challenge to the primacy of pure logical thinking, in Prospect.
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Morality of the tribe
Video of a debate I chaired at the How the Light Gets In festival with Natalie Cargill, David Miller and Peter Tatchell.
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