The Case Against Mental Health Awareness Raising
In the wake of World Mental Health Day and Theresa May’s appointment of a suicide prevention minister, this might seem like the least propitious time to make a case against…
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Jonathan Gleadell
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Jonathan Gleadell is a student at the University of Leeds. He is interested in environmental, developmental and economic geographies. He has previously worked as a music journalist and now writes about terrorism and politics. Start a conversation with Jonny: https://letter.wiki/JonnyGleadell/.
If Gifted Children Exist, Does a Meritocracy Still Make Sense?
The lamentable and dangerous myth persists that there is no such thing as innate talent or a gifted child. Whilst we might concede that if you are not born with…
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The Strange Death of Europe
“A calm, dispassionate and long overdue look at the facts that too many elected officials have either not yet seen or conspired to overlook.” Well-intentioned but woefully misguided politicians, Angela…
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Your Identity is Not an Argument
Speaking as a Secular Humanist, I Don’t Really Care Who You’re Speaking As Starting a sentence with this new qualification to an opinion, during everything from a formal debate to…
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After Manchester: Our Conversation About Islam Must Pave the Way for Politicians
The Twitter outpourings on the evening of the Manchester attack included those sickened by people making jokes and infuriated by the associations made with a religious doctrine before all the…
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