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Home / Archived Article(s) by Author: Mark Nicol
    • Human Interest

    Confessions – Maeve

    Mark Nicol     |      March 22, 2021

    We all live our lives, grow old and die – or do we? Perhaps, like “The Man From Earth” there are a special few who never age and live through history in the most special and ordinary ways.

    • Culture

    Mark Nicol’s Counterpoint – The new intellectual pedigree – The school of the fourth age

    Mark Nicol     |      March 15, 2021

    Dropping any pretence of academic rigour, social science has been turned into a tool of social progressives, and a new philosophy exploring man’s place in nature is required.

    • Society

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Human history versus human cultural evolution

    Mark Nicol     |      March 8, 2021

    Western academies of social scientists have comprehensively failed to produce rational accounts of moral or philosophical perspective in response to the ecological crisis facing the world today.

    • Society

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Social science is dead

    Mark Nicol     |      March 1, 2021

    Academics, judges and the press should concentrate on evidence based investigation, impartial adjudication and the independent reporting of facts, rather than indulge in partisan political campaigning.

    • Culture

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – What if versus what Is

    Mark Nicol     |      February 22, 2021

    The Western liberal tradition, and current progressive movements, are proving inadequate in the face of the existential environmental threat to the human species.

    • Human Interest

    Confessions – Whilst my guitar gently weeps

    Mark Nicol     |      February 16, 2021

    An enduring love of music has offered consolation to many people through life’s travails, with the power to summon memories as well as offer hope for the future.

    • Society

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – What matters and what matters not

    Mark Nicol     |      February 8, 2021

    Important as they are, society’s vexed debates about social and justice issues shouldn’t blind us to the wider questions, including the future of life on this increasingly polluted and over-populated planet.

    • International

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Alexei Navalny – The fight for humanity

    Mark Nicol     |      February 1, 2021

    Protests against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny are growing in Russia, but the movement for democracy needs the support of both Russians and the West to face down the brutal dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.

    • Society

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – The law unto itself

    Mark Nicol     |      January 26, 2021

    The law should protect the weak from the strong, but all too often the opposite is the case, benefitting those who practice the law rather than those it should protect. If we truly believe in justice, it’s time for a radical overhaul.

    • Human Interest

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Indulgence, injustice, and the book of fine scrapes

    Mark Nicol     |      January 18, 2021

    The New Year can be a time to remember the past as well as look forward to the future, and Open Forum regular Mark Nicol reflects on a boy’s night out before the age of masks and social distancing.

    • Culture
    • Society

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Gen-2D

    Mark Nicol     |      January 12, 2021

    People’s dependence on their mobile phones, and society’s reliance on integrated information systems, has not only eroded individual self-reliance but left the free world vulnerable to virtual attack from its enemies.

    • Culture

    Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Stop press! The fourth estate – service or farce?

    Mark Nicol     |      January 4, 2021

    The invention of the printing press heralded a revolution in human communications, but the nation’s newspapers are being left behind in the age of the Internet, and Open Forum columnist Mark Nicol is less than impressed with their current standard of ownership and content.

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