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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Piano pair strike just the right note
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The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
