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March 2010
Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a radically libertarian society at the expense of a humane one
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March 2010
Four new poems
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January/February 2010
Art had hitherto been a free market, subject to the vagaries of public taste and the whims of private patronage. Then in the 1830s and 1840s parliament energetically went about bringing order, system and supervision to the realm of art. The question is: why?
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January/February 2010
A Short Story
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A showcase of fine writing: poems, stories and essays
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