Issue 133: 2017 12 14: What is the point of university? (Lynda Goetz)

14 December 2017 What Is The Point Of University?  Dissatisfaction increases. by Lynda Goetz  Over the last few months student loans and university tuition fees have been in the news, as well as the apparently excessive pay of a number of university vice-chancellors.  In a week when the latter subject has once again been the… Continue reading Issue 133: 2017 12 14: What is the point of university? (Lynda Goetz)

Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday (Lynda Goetz)

10 March 2016 Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday, “Bah Humbug!” Why the modern celebration is a fabrication and a guilt trip. by Lynda Goetz “Mother’s Day is really just a test of your other half’s gift-giving skills,” pronounced Bryony Gordon in The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella Magazine. What?! (I think I might just be allowed to… Continue reading Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday (Lynda Goetz)

Issue 21:2015 09 24: The Only Lesson of History…

24 September 2015 The Only Lesson of History… …is that we learn nothing from history. by J R Thomas In 1919, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando and David Lloyd George, the leaders of  the victorious powers in the War to End All Wars, sat down together to sort out Europe.  It was a job… Continue reading Issue 21:2015 09 24: The Only Lesson of History…

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