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WALTER HUMES on the intellectual life of a city A hunger for ideas Some months ago I was invited to contribute to the 2009-10 lecture programme of the Royal Philosophical…
The Megrahi forum WALTER HUMES The attempt by the United States to take the moral high ground on the Megrahi case is understandable, in view of the number of American…
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The polite society II Niceness is not enough Walter Humes Readers may be astounded to learn that I was recently described as ‘that unkind observer of human frailty’. And there…