John Sutherland
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/ 12 July 2006

The happiness factor

Richard Reeves is a business analyst and co-founder of Intelligence Agency, an ideas consultancy. One of his biggest-selling ideas is happiness — or, as some would put it, “joyology”. Reeves was a member of the team that recently set itself the heroic task of bringing happiness to the English town of Slough, as a BBC TV experiment.

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/ 6 December 2005

Ideology at war in Israel

The vitriol Jacqueline Rose’ ideas have provoked is, perhaps, more startling than the ideas themselves. After Rose spoke on the winning side in a public debate on Zionism in January, British columnist Melanie Phillips — one of the speakers on the losing side — described her as one of ”hree Jewish persecutors of Israel who strutted their repellent stuff”.

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/ 17 October 2005

Enhancing the human race

The Boys from Brazil is one of Julian Savulescu’s favourite movies. That would not raise an eyebrow, were it not for the fact that his main interest as Uehiro professor of practical ethics at Oxford University is ”biological enhancement” — also known as ”the new eugenics”. Savulescu’s views on cloning and the improvement of the body have caused controversy before.

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/ 1 May 2005

It’s a slippery slope

The Jackson trial pollutes everything it touches: Peter Pan, motherhood, circus elephants–above all, American justice. One presumes the man (man?) is innocent. But does anyone think that even if guilty, and the convicted monster of Neverland spends the rest of his days banged up in a cell with a tattooed biker, any child in southern California will be safer? John Sutherland reports.

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/ 5 November 2004

Benefits of piracy

If Internet piracy is hurting Hollywood so much, why is the US box office healthier than ever? Far from destroying the film industry, movie downloading has made it raise its game, exploit its visual advantages, and lower its prices. John Sutherland reports.