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Slogan T-shirts that help you spot a moronic misogynist, from Uni Lad | Naomi McAuliffe

How do we re-moralise our society? | Nick Spencer

Kenneth Clarke is denying ex-criminals a right to be treated equally | Erwin James

The Behavioral Sink

Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter

We've been far too polite to these snake-oil diet sellers | Jackie Ashley | Comment is free | The Guardian

Bertrand Russell : An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943)

No one can deny, in face of the evidence, that it is easy, given military power, to produce a population of fanatical lunatics. It would be equally easy to produce a population of sane and reasonable people, but many governments do not wish to do so, since such people would fail to admire the politicians who are at the head of these governments.