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No entry Many years ago, I was working for a membership organisation, and we had agreed to bring out a speaker from the UK. He [...]
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The March of Folly
The March of Folly I often wonder where the place is to be found between being entertained, being made to think, and being constrained [...]
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02, 2026
Silk Roads
Silk Roads When I was around seven years old, my friend Andrew told me about his father’s plan. Back then, more than seventy years [...]
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12, 2025
Inevitability
Inevitability There is a popular strategy in looking back at past events to wonder ‘if only …’. It’s tricky. Any speculation about what could [...]
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11, 2025
St Martins Cathedral Utrecht
St Martin’s Cathedral Utrecht Major cities across Europe become packed in the summer months. It’s not just Paris, Rome and Berlin: a day in [...]
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10, 2025
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia Seeing a great building is a fascinating experience. By a great building, in this case I mean one that is historic (there [...]
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10, 2025
Aigai
Aigai We were in the second half of our cruise, travelling down the eastern coast of Greece, when the ship stopped at Thessaloniki. As [...]
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10, 2025
Six Great Ideas
Six Great Ideas I wonder if anyone reads Mortimer Adler today. For a while he was an influential and also popular philosopher, often referred [...]
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10, 2025
Caravaggio
Caravaggio Why do we become especially focussed on some artists or, to be more precise, on some works of art? There is often no [...]
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08, 2025
The Culture of Hope
The Culture of Hope As I see it, destiny was determined to make Frederick Turner of interest. Born in England on 19 November 1943, [...]
