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We certainly think of coal as a technology of the Industrial Revolution. However, more coal is dug up and burnt today than ever in world history!
David Edgerton
Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology
One of the chief assumptions of liberalism, at least a certain strand of liberalism and democratic theory, is the hope that the public sphere would be governed by reason: specifically, deliberative reason.
‘You can have a dictatorship somewhere in Europe, but not in the European Union. You have to be a democracy to be in the European Union.’
‘You can have a dictatorship somewhere in Europe, but not in the European Union. You have to be a democracy to be in the European Union.’
We certainly think of coal as a technology of the Industrial Revolution. However, more coal is dug up and burnt today than ever in world history!
David Edgerton
Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology
‘You can have a dictatorship somewhere in Europe, but not in the European Union. You have to be a democracy to be in the European Union.’
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The Nuremberg moment happened in 1945: a group of countries came together to create the first-ever international criminal tribunal with jurisdiction over crimes against humanity and war crimes.
All women, with or without privilege, are in some way or other disadvantaged. They are always the Other, no one and oppressed.
Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies
What has been learnt about the universe in the last 50 years will be one of the real high points, along with discoveries like the double helix and genetics, and Darwin and evolution.
Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics
Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy
A society of equals is one where no one looks up to anyone and no one looks down on anyone. No one is exploited, no one is dominated and no one is subjected to violence.
The COVID pandemic has made us reflect much more on what is meaningful in our lives; what is important and what is less important.
How would you like risk to be regulated if you didn’t know whether you were running those risks or not?
Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy
Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy
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