For the public health sceptic, monkeypox is the gift that keeps on giving. Hot off the press is a case that has rocked the worlds of virology and epidemiology, with the monkeypox virus facing accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism, the deliberate use of the words or ideas of others without attribution while passing them off as […]
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Being a Homeric hero was, my tutor once opined, quite a sweet deal. Few of them actually die in battle, but they get huge amounts of status. And they spend most of their time eating roast beef. The Iliad shows both sides sacrificing a hecatomb (100 oxen) at the drop of a hat to win divine
In the summer of 2020, the world fixated on a single phrase: “I can’t breathe.” George Floyd, pinned beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s knee for nine minutes and 29 seconds, uttered those words repeatedly as life drained from him. The video was visceral, the outrage instantaneous and global. Fast-forward to the early hours of 3rd
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The latest death On 3rd December last year, 18-year-old Henry Nowak, a first-year student at the University of Southampton, was stabbed four times by his alleged attacker, Vickrum Digwa. As a Sikh, Digwa was permitted to carry a ceremonial kirpan knife. Perhaps this wasn’t butch enough however, so he decided to complete his arsenal with
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One of the things the Establishment hates is individualism. They get unhappy when you don’t toe the line on, say, voting to remain in the EU. They stop you from complaining about the affects of immigration on your town, they dislike you visiting Wetherspoons, they get twitchy if you point out men can’t become women,
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It had been one of those weeks. It was not that anything had gone badly wrong, but more that nothing had gone particularly right. It could have been different – a push here, a nudge there, and it would have been a good week. But neither push nor nudge came and so it ended on
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‘Division’ is one of those overused wank-words governments employ to tell you whose side of the debate you should find yourself on. In Britain, towns increasingly split along religious fault lines, migrants who refuse either to follow our laws or integrate, and grooming gangs that target white, working-class girls, calling them “white slags”, are euphemised
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What happens when societies stop sharing a common culture? On a Friday evening on London’s Jubilee line, you can travel across the entire cultural landscape of 21st-century Western Europe in just a few stops. Arab families, Nigerian Christians, Polish workers, French financial analysts, Pakistani students, and young British professionals sit in the same carriage. Yet,
‘Giving something back to the community’ is a well-worn phrase but one that has great meaning. It speaks of performing activities that are intrinsic in a civilised, settled society, activities that are good – mentally and physically – for the one who performs them, and good for the community that receives them. Contrary to many
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Andy Burnham is auditioning to replace Keir Starmer as First Algorithm to the Treasury. In service of this strange ambition he is going to give up the Manchester mayoralty and re-enter the Commons after finding a safe Labour seat. He is confident that such a thing exists, empiricism notwithstanding. Bless him. You have to suspect
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