Hazel on April 7th, 2011

Anybody who’s given some thought to ethical dilemmas will have come across the old slippery slope argument. Quick intake of breath. Oooh, no. Once you allow … or …, the whole of society will slide into decadence and ruin. Don’t even venture a toe there. I’ve been tiptoeing through the mountains and forests of philosophy [...]

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Hazel on April 22nd, 2010

I’ve just had a complete stranger contact me to check: Do I exist? Am I really me? Did I actually win a prize in a writing competition as an advert claimed? Now, I’ve lost count of the number of people who’ve told me they’ve seen this photo (top right) in the said advert – for [...]

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Hazel on July 16th, 2009

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was away four days last week – no time to keep up to date with the papers. Too busy scattering sheep in darkest Wales, inching through traffic in the tourist mecca that is Devon, and meeting distant relatives at funeral wakes. But trawling through the backlog of [...]

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