When I first started compiling all these instances of corruption, I thought that the rate at which I came across them would decline, and it has to a slight extent,…
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In a previous piece, I mentioned that while studying for my Ph.D., I undertook course work in ‘scientific Russian’ and ‘scientific German’ to give me a limited knowledge of both…
Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal and a recent issue had an op-ed piece by an appalling, clearly envious, Joseph Epstein denigrating the wife of the US President Elect,…
On the morning of the 15th of December, former Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist, who now works for the 9 Network, tweeted the following: “Horrified to learn that the new language guide…
When the federal Coalition was elected to government in 2013, they took a great deal of glee in repealing the very effective Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). It was in…
I read a piece in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb about the Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey1, a person of whom I had never heard. Reading about Ramsey makes one…