Nicholas Shackel
Nicholas Shackel is a Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. His research is concerned with rationality and with paradoxes.
Braving the woke mob is a prisoner’s dilemma
Nicholas Shackel, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Cardiff, explains how to turn the prisoner’s dilemma into the free speaker’s game
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Living in the Eighties
An exhibition of photos from a pivotal decade interests and exhausts
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated