We’ve all experienced those moments of being caught in conversation with people we don’t really know and can’t really be bothered with, but find ourselves bound to make small-talk with regardless to avoid being labelled an ignoramus.
One of two points of conversation almost always come up: “So, what do you do for a living?” Why […]

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That’s what Brendan O’Neill suggests in Spiked Online: that British authorities and others are now regarding Halloween as an annoyance and even a threat. What’s gone so wrong with Halloween, and how is this playing out? O’Neill writes:
“Police forces around Britain are supplying households with posters warning children not to knock on their […]

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