The 12 Days of Books #11 – The promise that changes everything

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A new book by Nancy Kline on thinking better is always An Event, in my view. The Promise That Changes Everything is her latest. It’s not giving away any secrets to say that the promise of the title, captured in the subtitle, is ‘I won’t interrupt you’. As Kline puts it: ‘Change where your attention […]

The 12 Days of Books #2 – Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

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“The vast majority [of white people] refuse to accept the legitimacy of structural racism and its symptoms.” Quite a while back I saw Reni Eddo-Lodge on a late-night political affairs programme, in which she was taking part in a panel discussion about race. She was the only black person on the panel. The debate, on […]

Daniel Dennett’s Information Age

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My instinctive response to the question ‘Which Information Age are we living in?’ might be ‘The Age of Information Overload’. Distinguished philosopher, cognitive scientist and author Daniel Dennett has a more highbrow answer. In a meaty lunchtime talk organised by the How to Academy, he swept across a mindboggling slew of topics, from the beginnings […]

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