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Roy Jenkins, an only child from the valleys, was born into the socialist purple. That is, his father Arthur, a miners’ agent, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment during the General Strike,

"I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my

What is called “modern” philosophy is dated as beginning with Descartes in the 17th century. Space, time, God, the world, my body, everything I seem to remember about the life I have

The Lasker-Capablanca showdown of 1914