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Book publishers should prevent E readers from undercutting their books recommended retail price.

Macmillan has won a battle with Amazon, creator of the kindle, on the pricing of its books online. The intent is to try to prevent readers from buying their books online and instead purchase traditional style books. However the lessons of the music industry would seem to imply that in order to p...more...

Do you think a celebrity would make a good minister?

Why should professional politicians be any better at being a minister than anyone else? What extra skills do they have that means they will be successful at running the country? Celebrities are successful in their own fields, they have often taken a hold of their life and made a success out of un...more...

Does the media portray youths in a negative way?

Young people often feel that they are negatively portrayed by the media. The media gets lots of news stories out of the threat from hoodies, youth knife crime, binge drinking in city centres and ASBOs being slapped on young people. Even some ‘good news’ stories are portrayed negatively such as th...more...

The Acai berry phenomenon is all a bunch of hype

There are hundreds of websites and Youtube videos endorsing the use of Acai berry supplements to lose dramatic amounts of weight. Are all/most of these endorsements scams mooching off of false propaganda? more...

Aliens are likely to be just like us.

Simon Conway Morris, professor of evolutionary paleobiology at Cambridge University believes that Aliens are likely to be greedy, violent and wish to exploit the resources of the planet just like humanity. Our abiding image of Aliens is of little men with big heads and immense eyes, but none the ...more...

contraceptives should not be allowed as solution of teenage pregnancy problem.

Much has been made of teenage pregnancy in our modern era. There is a stigma attached to teenage mothers and fathers (you only need to watch Jeremy Kyle for evidence of this). But whilst there is a stigma, and whilst they may not make the best parents, are contraceptives really the solution to th...more...

Information should be translated into minority languages.

While the language of the nation is English in order for many minorities some are not fluent enough in English to understand government information given out in English. So even if the numbers are very small they need to have information published in their language. Minority British languages su...more...

The dodgy dossier did not ‘misrepresent’ the threat from Saddam’s WMD.

In his hearing before the Chilcot inquiry Alastair Campbell has defended every word of the so called ‘dodgy dossier’ that was published as evidence of the need for a pre-emptive war against Iraq due to the threat from Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. This dossier was however known fo...more...

Should obesity be considered a bigger threat than smoking?

American scientists are warning that obesity has overtaken smoking as the biggest threat to people’s health. This is not a particularly new issue. While we are slowly reducing the numbers of people who are smoking the obesity ‘epidemic’ continues. To make matters worse give up smoking and you are...more...

anthropocentrism ought to be valued above biocentrism

The qualities of humans have empowered the species to a degree that no other species has achieved during the history of life on Earth, through the development of social systems and technologies that make possible an intense exploitation and management of the environment. This power has allowed h...more...