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In an interview with Mark Kermode last year, Alastair Campbell argued strongly against Kermode’s suggestion that politics is “venal and crass”: Politics has delivered most of the great things in the world and its history In fairness, I should probably start by saying that I’ve always been a great fan of Mark Kermode’s film reviews. [...]

Henz has written a series of posts on science funding which are well worth reading, arguing that any cuts to science would seriously damage an already neglected area. This post is brief and not nearly as well researched as Henz’s, but simply aims to add a slightly different angle to start thinking about. Whatever your [...]

I’ve just watched an interview on Newsnight that can only be described as bizarre. Jeremy Paxman interviewed Russell Brand, who decided to discuss the nature of fame and celebrity (seemingly regardless of Paxman’s initial aims for the interview). Brand’s answers and commentary on “the cult of celebrity” seemed to consist of intelligence spoken so quickly [...]