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Ceteris paribus
What if the very tool we use to understand reality is what prevents us from seeing it clearly?
Feb 16
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Ankles deep in the past, but backs to the future
How did the ancient world organise deep time before the standardisation of the modern calendar?
Feb 13
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The niche construction of rhetoric
We often think of rhetoric as an abstract art, a verbal aesthetic that feels like a “bonus” feature of human language.
Feb 9
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Teaching by example and hyperbole
Medieval fantasy was more than an exploration of imagined worlds
Feb 2
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January 2026
I can’t walk in your shoes
Originating in 19th-century literature and Native American oral traditions, the well-worn phrase “putting yourself in someone else’s shoes”, sounds…
Jan 30
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To interrogate a sausage
Robert Burns and the uniqueness of addressing the Haggis
Jan 26
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Plato, Socrates and performative contradictions
Who would dare question that literacy is one of the best thing that ever happened to us?
Jan 23
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Would Dante host a creative writing workshop?
Whatever his claims, or the modern scholars’ views as to his claims to authentic vision, Dante remains the most creative of the most creative writers…
Jan 19
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Seeing the Renaissance prince through the Johari window
As a schoolboy, the photographer and dandy Cecil Beaton – the 20th century’s premier architect of elegance and artifice, and who famously designed the…
Jan 16
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Where there's a will, there's a way out
I often find things hard to start.
Jan 12
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An epidemic of hyperforeignism
It is fascinating how we twist our tongues into knots to signal a sophistication we haven’t actually earned.
Jan 9
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The end of an empire
As I mentioned in a previous post, my recent trip to Mexico was a sensory overload… the volcanic stone of ancient ruins, the heat, the dizzying layers…
Jan 7
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