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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
What we owe to the people who take the risk of loving us
May 30
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Jeremy Stangroom
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How the English Are the Best in the World
Everybody and everything in England is the best
Mar 17, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
5
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How British Communists Flirted with a Nazi Win
How the CPGB embraced revolutionary defeatism in about turn farce
Feb 12, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
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Philosophers Scandalised by Tory MP
A philosophical pile-on in slow motion.
Jan 18, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
9
4
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Did Bertrand Russell advocate for a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia?
What Did Russell Say At Westminster School in 1948?
Jan 9, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
2
4
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Not Such a Bright Idea
On the ill-fated "Brights" fiasco
Jan 7, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
2
3
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Bertrand Russell and the Plane Crash
How Earl Russell, aged 76, swam for his life in a Norwegian Fjord
Jan 2, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
16
25
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The Genesis of a Philosophical Myth
On Schopenhauer throwing a seamstress downstairs
Jan 1, 2025
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Jeremy Stangroom
1
3
The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 3)
How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards
Dec 17, 2024
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Jeremy Stangroom
9
6
The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 2)
How Simone de Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards
Dec 16, 2024
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Jeremy Stangroom
11
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The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 1)
How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards
Dec 15, 2024
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Jeremy Stangroom
19
14
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The Sorrows of Young Goethe
On the pain of unrequited love
Dec 5, 2024
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Jeremy Stangroom
5
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