Posts Tagged ‘Simon Jenkins’

Forget Brexit, war in Ukraine is the biggest threat to Europe

Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Ukraine

While parliament fiddles, Europe burns, or at least sputters into flame. History could not be clearer. The diversion of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict into the Sea of Azov is precisely the kind of escalation that has preceded Europe’s past cataclysms. A great power treats a little one with contempt. A little one responds with violence, expecting Read more

Now everyone is connected, is this the death of conversation?

Friday, May 4th, 2012

A professor at MIT who is also a psychologist, Sherry Turkle says that her students are almost able to keep eye contact with someone while texting to another person. In her opinion, such people are “alone together … a tribe of one”. Those who have 3,000 Facebook friends have no friends. In his opinion piece, Simon Jenkins Read more