Author: KB
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Monsters vs Aliens | Immigration, Space Travel and Becoming Syrian
Through a discussion club I run at school I got to thinking about the coincidence of two recent major news threads: immigration and space travel. I know, never a dull day in teaching. In the back of my mind were good friends in a sea-side village about 200 miles from London who have been getting…
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*Finally* – A Biblical Perspective on the EU
Came through my door today. A *slight* stretch, me thinks. Though I confess I’m tempted to investigate 😉
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The Dark Side of the Summer of Love
Researching for my talk at TEDx this year, I came across scanned pages of this superb article in Playboy magazine. Who knew what crazy stuff was out there on the Interwebs?! Seriously, it’s a very fine piece that gets under the skin of what was really going on at the time, through the story of a…
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Robots Should Pay Tax | How Much Does a Stormtrooper Make Each Month?
Chances are, your job is under threat. Chances are, in 20 years, you could be being replaced by a robot. Automation is coming, and it won’t look much like Star Wars. The problem is, what happened to C3PO’s human predecessor? Or his 6 million predecessors – the highly trained, skilled translators to and from those languages…
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The Breakdown of Your Psychotherapist’s Invoice in Full
This is just lovely from the always-brilliant McSweeney’s… Follow link for the full breakdown 😉
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A White House Where He Is Adored
Very interesting read here about Trump’s ‘Southern White House.’ ‘He comes down here because he needs constant applause,’ one Palm Beach resident notes. ‘He’s adored within the confines of that club.’ What is becoming clear is that Trump is not adored among the worker-bees of the White House. His solution – flying off to where…