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The Standing Ovation Theory of Everything
Why Our Choices Are Never Ours Alone
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Ian Leslie
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27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person
Plus a rattle bag of goodies
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Ian Leslie
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The Sunak Question
Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
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Ian Leslie
6
Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy?
The Ideological Well-Being Gap
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Ian Leslie
8
How Silicon Valley Hacked the Science of Human Behaviour
Revisiting My 2016 Piece on The Phones
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Ian Leslie
Can You Imitate a Genius?
What the new Amy Winehouse film tells us about singing, talent, and AI
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Ian Leslie
11
Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It
A Tale From My Trip To The Zoo
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Ian Leslie
7
Am I Anti-Woke?
Self-Reflection Inspired by Nick Cave, Plus a Taxonomy of Woke, Plus Rattle Bag
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Ian Leslie
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