No Sacred Cows
Scepticism served medium rare
Category: Satire
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Procrastination has had a bad press for far too long. People who delay answering emails, leave paperwork untouched for several weeks, stare thoughtfully at an overflowing laundry basket or decide that the garden can probably survive another day are accused of laziness, disorganisation and poor self-discipline, when in fact they are often doing something far…
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I regularly watch Mehdi Hasan on his Zeteo channel. I have always admired him. He is quick-witted, combative, incisive, formidably well informed and, at his best, almost impossible to evade. He has a particular gift for pinning politicians to facts when they would much rather disappear into rhetoric, and for spotting the evasions, sleights of…
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There was a time when ordering a meal involved an exchange between two human beings. One stated what one wished to eat, another pretended to be interested, and eventually something resembling it arrived. The system was not perfect. It depended upon memory, goodwill, language, competence and, occasionally, even eye contact, all notoriously unreliable technologies. Fortunately,…
No Sacred Cows 