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In early 1944 I was born in London, a city I love. I spent much of my childhood in rural north Oxfordshire, an area to which I have a great sense of belonging. And I have lived in Victoria, Australia (mainly in the Melbourne area), since 1976. I am now 82 years old, so I hope I have gained a little wisdom, or at least enough to take stock and sum up my life.
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During the vibrant and colourful celebration of Berlin’s Christopher Street Day on 25 July, one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ Pride events, darkness descended whe...
Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) was an atheist. He was a systematic atheist. His atheism was fundamental to his ethical and political project. Spinoza’s contemporaries in the seventeenth-century republic of letters were in little doubt on these points. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who knew Spinoza personally and must count as one of the most perceptive observers of ...
Many years ago, I attended a sales course where we were taught to begin a presentation with what was called, if my memory serves me correctly, an ‘Initial Advantage Statement’. The idea was simple: start with something which everyone in the room could agree on. Having established that initial agreement, you could then move on to the rather more difficult business of persuadin...