Britain’s Labour Problem

The HGV crisis will in time doubtless be resolved. But the underlying UK problem of shortage of labour will not. Brexit has brought home to us that we have too many old people, too many disabled and too many...

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Cézzane: the mystery of the real

Post 22 Cézanne Jonah Lehrer is himself a neuroscientist so he brings a special level of awareness to Cézanne’s painting techniques.  Not only did Cézanne paint in the most extraordinary way.  Lehrer tells us in Proust Was a Neuro-scientist that his method of painting...

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There is no God beyond the sky. But what of inflation?

There is no God somewhere beyond the sky.  But there is a creative intellectual force deep within the universe.  Most ordinary people like me have at last got round to accepting that the universe began with the Big Bang.  It was with...

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