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		<title>Media Update &#8211; May 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent media for The Jolly Pilgrim: &#160; The Actuarial Post - article and review The Actuarial Post published an article about the book, along with a marvellous (and, dare I say it, insightful) review by a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Click here to see it. The magazine cut Mr McDade&#8217;s full [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/05/media-update-may-2012/</link>
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		<title>Jeremy Paxman &#8211; Sarah Agassi interview in &#8216;Empire&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is off-topic from this blog’s normal subject matter, for reasons explained below. &#160; Background My father was a dispatch rider for the Royal Army Ordinance Corps, in Palestine, between 1946 and 1948. During that time a terrorist organisation called Irgun planted a bomb at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/04/jeremy-paxman-sarah-agassi-interview-empire-series/</link>
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		<title>46: Phase Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[28 March 2012 Good Morning Everybody I‘ve resolved to keep you informed with media and website updates etc, but from now on I’ll spare you the blow-by-blow account of my movements, and especially my love life (because I keep getting myself in trouble). From now on I’ll focus my energy on elaborating and clarifying the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/03/3553/</link>
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		<title>Media Update &#8211; April 2012 (including reviews and interviews)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent media for The Jolly Pilgrim. Bolded words are links. Stonking review and interview, in The Stag (University of Surrey) delightful enough to use the phrase &#8216;next-generation travelogue&#8217; Interview with me, with the young travel journalist from Redbrick Travel who described my book as ‘travel porn’ Great review of the book, in Leeds Student (University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/03/media-update-including-reviews-and-interviews/</link>
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		<title>45: Common Era or The Year of Our Lord?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[26 March 2012 I’ve been asked to explain (and justify) why I use (and favour) the CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before Common Era) dating system, rather than the more traditional AD (Anno Domini, or ‘In the Year of Our Lord’) and BC (‘Before Christ’) system. First, it’s convenient to date events from a point [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/03/45-common-era-or-the-year-of-our-lord/</link>
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		<title>Media Update &#8211; March 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent media for The Jolly Pilgrim, including two stonking reviews. - Review of the book, published by Redbrick Travel (University of Birmingham) - Review of the book, published by Xmediaonline (University of Exeter) - Article about the book, for the British Humanist Association (BHA) - Report on a signing, at the Village Bookshop in Woodford [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/03/media-update-march-2012/</link>
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		<title>44: Apotheosis Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[19 February 2012 A tricky decision while compiling The Jolly Pilgrim was how hard to go with the final global musings. In particular, the thirteenth: Apotheosis. In the end, we chose to tone down the original draft (for the book), and post the ‘uncut’ version online at a later date. You can now find it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/02/44-apotheosis-revisited/</link>
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		<title>The Pale Blue Dot &#8211; Pete and Tom @ Speaker&#8217;s Corner, Hyde Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was my and Tom&#8217;s first attempt to set out our proposed cosmic and optimistic narrative. An extract: &#8220;The world you see around you is not defined by some grand struggle between America and Russia, India and China or radical Islam and modernity. Its fundamental patterns are not described by a clash of civilisations, global [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/02/the-pale-blue-dot-pete-and-tom-speakers-corner-hyde-park/</link>
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		<title>Creative Process Review &#8211; The Jolly Pilgrim, Video 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the video designed for and shown at the book launch in July 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/02/creative-process-review/</link>
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		<title>43: Counterarguments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12 February 2012 It’s very useful when people attack the basic positions set out in The Jolly Pilgrim. Those are: humanity is far better off than is generally assumed; technological civilisation is a natural and inevitable extension of Earth’s ecosphere, not an existential threat to it; the critical issues humanity now faces represent a limited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thejollypilgrim.org/2012/02/43-counterarguments/</link>
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