The Grasshopper
The Grasshopper is often asked about the rules in England pertaining to busking.  It takes a fair amount of digging to find out...
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Where did this word ‘woke’ come from?  Let’s hear what Huddie Ledbetter a.k.a. Lead Belly had to say on the subject…
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There are no more frustrating labels as ‘left’ and ‘right’.  What do they even mean?  In an issue-driven world, your stance on, say, immigration might …
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For many, the age of the true polymath has gone. But despite the endless mantra of ‘specialise, specialise, specialise’, interdisciplinarity is vital i…
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In The Nicomachean Ethics, old Ari nailed it when he wrote that we should find the right things to do and then do those things right. He wrote right. R…
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The scattergun use of the word 'extreme' really gets The Grasshopper’s back legs rubbing.  As soon as you can add this to the label, well, so much the …
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August 2021
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A friend of The Grasshopper recently posted an opinion on social media – for this narrative, neither the content nor the platform matter – to which som…
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