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		<description><![CDATA[Everything is getting better. Or so the numbers tell us. Such, from quick perusal, seems to be the burden of a number of &#8216;optimistic&#8217; books that have come out in the last few years by authors like Matt Ridley, Steve Pinker and Hans, Ola and Anna Rosling. And there are some seriously impressive facts optimists [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Possibility</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophers often distinguish several kinds of possibility: physical, logical, metaphysical. One can think of a kind of possibility as a restriction on the set of possible worlds that the speaker is prepared to consider &#8211; the physically possible, for instance, is what is found in some possible worlds that observe the existing laws of physics [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lexicon: an introduction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we talk about politics, or life, or art, we have to use words. But two people never use words in quite the same way. Words play games with us; they are too vague, or too precise; they claim technical status without warrant, or abuse well-established technical terms; they make us mistake verbal differences for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A reading at Waterloo on the 15th of June</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have, for some years, been a member of the Southwark Poetry Stanza, one of a network of local groups under the general umbrella of the Poetry Society. We have run a number of events in the last few years, many of which straddle the arts of poetry and theatre; not always easy, since the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayakosky at Calder&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution has been marked by a wave of exhibitions and plays. Last Sunday I went along to a small production of Mayakovsky&#8217;s Bathhouse at the Calder bookshop-cum-theatre, famous as the location of Samuel Beckett&#8217;s publisher and now much involved in participatory theatre. Mayakovsky&#8217;s gifts as a poet were generally [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hippocrates book of the heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem of mine is included in the new anthology of poetry and medical writing, the Hippocrates Book of the Heart, edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer, and available from all good bookshops.]]></description>
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		<title>Dostoevsky&#8217;s Demons: a new transposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theatre, film and the novel are somewhat quarrelsome housemates constantly negotiating with each other for space and control. I sometimes think that a great film can be made only from a mediocre novel; a great novel has too much material, and does its job too completely, for film to operate freely. I&#8217;ve never read the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When to take a draw ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 06:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often I lose a game after rejecting an offer of a draw. I think this is mainly because I tend to overreach in good positions when short of time, rather than because I overestimate my position or am wrongfooted by the offer. On the whole I think it&#8217;s good practice to play on if one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 06:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miniature chess games are usually considered to be anything under twenty-five moves or so. They include, of course, many great masterpieces. Games under ten moves are rather different. I am not sure if anyone has done an anthology: there is surely scope. There is an anthology of very short poems, which restricted the length to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Extremism: David Cameron&#8217;s bad idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This Monday, David Cameron announced that the fight against extremism was ‘the struggle of our generation’. Cameron’s assault on ‘extremism’ reminds me of George W. Bush’s war on ‘terror’. Both served the purpose of giving a rather vacuous head of a conservative government a reason to exist. Both used large and dubious abstractions to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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