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"I Don't Think You Have, Mate"

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By Laura Dodsworth
| thefreemind.co.uk
The “banality of evil” is probably Hannah Arendt’s most famous phrase. In 1961, she sat in a Jerusalem courtroom and watched Adolf Eichmann — the Nazi bureaucrat who had overseen the logistics of the Holocaust — answer for his crimes. She had expected a monster, but what she found was a small, self-important, thoroughly ordinary man. He spoke in clichés. He was, she wrote, almost boring. Arendt didn’t say Eichmann was not evil — he plainly was.
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Things we are madly wrong about – my dispatch from the frontlines of modern madness

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By Laura Dodsworth
| thefreemind.co.uk
On several of the most important questions of our time, Britain has lost its grip on reality. We are wrong about power, wrong about morals and wrong about religion, and the confidence with which this country makes these errors is matched only by the paucity of the thinking behind them. Welcome to this week’s dispatch from the frontlines of modern madness.
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Eat Like Grandma Again - America Reclaims Its Food Pyramid

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By Laura Dodsworth
| thefreemind.co.uk
Last week I wrote about Seven Things to be Happy About This New Year. Thanks to President Trump, we now have an eighth: the new dietary guidelines for Americans. It is no longer quite so socially unacceptable to admit you rather like Trump. In some circles he is still regarded with horror, of course, but those are not my circles. And whatever you think about the politics, the hair, or the grabbing-the-pussy faux pas, one thing is hard to deny: his administration is putting the nation’s health first.
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