Epictetus on Twitter
One definition of addiction is repetition of a behaviour despite adverse consequences. Twitter users will know all about it, especially…
Herodotus on 111
The NHS 111 line, designed to deal with problems that do not count as emergencies, is in financial and organisational…
Plato on Today
A woman is invited to join the Today programme, and the chatteratae are immediately a-twitter on the subject of female…
Why Egypt needs a Socrates
No one seems to know, or is willing to say, whether the Egyptian army’s intervention in Egyptian democracy was legal…
Socrates on TV debates
Lord Hennessy has been arguing that, as a result of TV debates between party leaders prior to elections, ‘the plausible…
Common enemies
One assumes that it will eventually dawn on those so deeply committed to slaughtering each other in Syria that, whatever…
