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The Point of Pain in an Anesthetized Society

The venue: the Royal Geographical Society. The motion: ‘We’ve Never Had it so Good.’ For the motion: two interchangeable rationalists armed with pie charts and line graphs demonstrably proving that the pie of prosperity only gets bigger and the line of progress ­– x axis Time, y axis Science – ascends steadily towards quantifiable happiness. Against […]

Dear Fresher…

Going into the final term of first year, Melissa McCrow addresses her fresher self with a look back on her year.