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Will give a series of talks over three days at anonymous Lancashire secondary school.

Parents want them because they have better discipline.

Unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy.

The harder Blair’s arguments are looked at, the more curious they seem.

You can read Othello in two of three ways: ‘Marxist, feminist, race’. Zzzzz.

Simply a theory that suggests there is more than one way of looking at the world. Ah.

Mill quoted Bentham’s opinion that pushpin was as good as poetry – as evidence of his short-sightedness.

Military common sense has been abandoned in favour of the brutal, politically driven shortcut.

Taxi drivers will be responsible for passengers dressed ‘inappropriately’.

Students training to be imams at London college cite doctrines which describe nonMuslims as ‘filth’.

‘If a woman, even a Muslim woman, is naked and you have no way of covering her up, it is legitimate to kill her.’

Proposals in government bill could give ‘faith groups’ a much bigger role in running of schools.

Brain cannot see itself fooling itself, so the only way to avoid bias is to avoid situations that produce it.

Draws on Epicurus, Seneca, Kant, Mill.

Virus could account for 75% of China’s missing women, less than 20% of India’s.

Ha ha, wrong station, hee hee, they met at a pub, nyah nyah, Nick Cohen and Francis Wheen.

‘The Chancellor has long attempted to claim the giant of the Scottish Enlightenment for Labour.’

A singular, wised-up, cant-free voice that is pure intelligence at play.

A society whose best students have a thin understanding of its past is a society in trouble.

Would have agreed with Trilling’s praise of Hawthorne’s ‘dissent from the orthodoxies of dissent.’