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
Why Boris let the EU keep Northern Ireland
Two parties in Downing St. that explain why Boris Johnson ignored his Brexiteer base
Beware the bill of attainder
Christopher Silvester explains how English history could have an important part to play in Trump’s impeachment
Should MPs read?
If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?
The cacophonous Mr Chips
A good field guide, but it won’t make you fall in love with the gull next door
The PM’s plan for lifting lockdown
A leisurely unlocking to prevent a rise in infections, or something more political?
Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle
Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career
Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
Sacking of the libraries
Should libraries should sell historic manuscripts to solve short-term financial problems