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This Week's Last Week

...ends in a whimper rather than a bang. And betrays earlier integrity by indulging in what Freddy Ayer (in his criticism of moral propositions as unverifiable) "flag-waving"....
01:32 Fri 19th Jul 20195 answers, last by vetuste_ennemi 21:12 Fri 19th Jul 2019
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Like This Song...

...and the singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPKv8EGaOQ...
06:13 Thu 18th Jul 20191 answer, last by The Builder 13:29 Thu 18th Jul 2019
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Breach Of Copyright?

If so I hope the Spectator will forgive me and see this as a useful plug. This is a winning entry in a competition to write a poem with an "ingenious twist at the end"": "I’m honoured as a lifelong...
18:24 Wed 17th Jul 20196 answers, last by Patsy33 19:32 Wed 17th Jul 2019
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Panorama On The Birmingham School Protests

Anybody seen this? How do you think the issue about the teaching of sexual and family diversity is going to be resolved? Especially as the temperature will be raised further next year when it becomes...
23:30 Mon 15th Jul 2019116 answers, last by Mamyalynne 12:33 Sat 20th Jul 2019
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University Challenge Is Back

In case any of you fans hadn't noticed.
20:23 Mon 15th Jul 20197 answers, last by goodgoalie 22:25 Mon 15th Jul 2019
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No Heart Attack Yet...

... despite another great match on "Super Sunday, but one in which I had a personal interest. (Well done, Mr Djokovic, and commiserations tyou, Mr Federer, by the way. And thank you both.). But I...
23:53 Sun 14th Jul 20195 answers, last by DTCwordfan 07:08 Mon 15th Jul 2019
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Charles I: Downfall Of A King

Another fine piece of television showing that there are still tiny outposts of integrity and intellectual curiosity in the corrupt empire. 9.00 on BBC4 - first of a three-parter....
22:02 Tue 09th Jul 201932 answers, last by Khandro 09:40 Wed 10th Jul 2019
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South Africa V Australia: What A Match!

And loved watching the enthusiastic fans in the earlier India v Sri Lanka match. (But especially the female one, tut, tut.)
04:31 Sun 07th Jul 20191 answer, last by webbo3 09:57 Sun 07th Jul 2019
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Cuzco To Quito In Five Days On Foot

Watching a BBC4 recording I took some while ago about the Inca Empire, and just got the extraordinary claim by the historian presenting the program that the Incas could get a message from one city to...
00:03 Thu 04th Jul 201913 answers, last by Khandro 10:46 Thu 04th Jul 2019
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Dawn Chorus From...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y...
07:35 Sat 22nd Jun 20194 answers, last by vetuste_ennemi 08:07 Sat 22nd Jun 2019
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Extend Life Indefinitely

Or at least a lot longer. Proposed by a scientist referring to genetic engineering of some sort. I have a preference for sticking around. Mainly out of curiosity: how is all this rubbish going to work...
11:45 Thu 20th Jun 201915 answers, last by naomi24 17:09 Mon 24th Jun 2019
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Are You A Champion Or A Wimp?

An interview with Jessica Ennis (a previous VE favourite). Jessica has morphed into pathetic victim claiming that pregnant athletes need "more support". By whom? And why? Further in the interview:...
07:38 Thu 20th Jun 201916 answers, last by pixie374 22:19 Mon 24th Jun 2019
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Malaysia's President Doing Stand-Up

...or rather sit-down. And his sense of humour chimes exactly with that of the brightest and the best in one of Britain's premier universities. https://twitter.com/UJS_UK/status/1140545167704961024...
01:44 Tue 18th Jun 201914 answers, last by vetuste_ennemi 02:58 Tue 18th Jun 2019
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Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Just watched the final episode. What a pleasure this series was, and proof that the BBC can, if it [i]really[i] tries hard, produce programs of quality....
22:31 Mon 17th Jun 201915 answers, last by Bigbad 17:15 Wed 19th Jun 2019
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Chinese Tenor Wins Round 1

of Singer of the Year.
01:07 Mon 17th Jun 201914 answers, last by ladybirder 23:57 Sat 22nd Jun 2019
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1988 Was A Bad Year For Popular Music...

Just been watching Top ot the Pops for that year. Hang about, this song ain't bad, is it? (Mr Cooke's daughter?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AOAap6_k4...
05:46 Sun 16th Jun 201926 answers, last by spathiphyllum 15:45 Mon 17th Jun 2019
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Stooped To Pick Up A Penny And Found A Sixpence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y...
21:44 Thu 13th Jun 201914 answers, last by Eleena 22:55 Thu 13th Jun 2019
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Zero Carbon Emissions - A Moral Duty

Last throw of the political die by Ms ("must leave a good legacy - last one didn't work") May. To be accomplished by 2050? Can all you economic experts and climate scientists who know with absolute...
23:41 Wed 12th Jun 201920 answers, last by jim360 11:07 Thu 13th Jun 2019
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Gove "ashamed" Of Cocaine Use

Major news topic. Sky's New Preview discussing it now. I, as a young man, could - under pressure - give you a very long list of juvenile and older misdemeanours. (Most, but not all, would be matters...
23:57 Sat 08th Jun 201961 answers, last by spathiphyllum 16:38 Tue 11th Jun 2019
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Cd-Day And Sexual Discrimination

Am I right or wrong in my observation that the participants in the Normandy landings were [i]exclusively[i] male? Might you have thought that at least Juno beach had a few feisty girls wading ashore?...
08:16 Fri 07th Jun 201921 answers, last by bednobs 17:25 Fri 07th Jun 2019

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