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An unremarkable coincidence

A few months ago I spent some time exploring my wife’s family tree. One fragment of jigsaw was a census return from 1851 showing one of her 3–greats-grandfathers, then age 16, living with his parents at 13 Cambridge Street in Soho. I looked at the current London street map and found there is no Cambridge Street [...]

Unintended consequences…

…or, what if the things you believe are fundamental to keeping your society together are in some way linked to the negative effects that you see around you? That might be the sort of question you ask after reading a study published in the Journal of Religion & Society which suggests that a high level of [...]

Working in the Twenty-First Century

I’ve been reading Working in the Twenty-First Century, which describes itself as an evidenced-based look at the future of work in the UK over the next 20 years by Michael Moynagh and Richard Worsley, published by the Economic and Social Research Council and The Tomorrow Project. Four main themes emerge from the report: The [...]

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