cash
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Is it time to abolish cash?
The abolition of physical currency is not a panacea but might help deter tax dodgers
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Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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Britain lacks a party of the young
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Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
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