Wikipedia explains the word pleonexia like this: Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξία, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and
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As the Guardian notes: A third of school staff have seen “physical underdevelopment” in students due to poverty, with schools in England stretching their budgets
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As a follow-up to the post I have already made this morning concerning Trump’s attack on US universities, which has the obvious intention of restricting
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The events of the last few days have posed a number of questions. One is, why do we have governments when, if they are captured
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Today is Boat Race day in England. The power of the Oxbridge elite in our society guarantees that this ridiculous sporting event between teams that
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According to a report in The Mirror this morning, which is based on government data sorted by council ward: According to the latest figures from
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A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I watched the 1995 film, ‘Carrington’. Starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce. It tells the extraordinary relationship
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One of the perverse facts in our society is that it is, apparently, worse to call out a racist than it is to be a
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I decided to call Donald Trump a fascist when I was on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning. That was a conscious, preordained choice. I
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