http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/tom_hodgkinson en http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2009/05/technology-world-brave-stupid http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2009/05/technology-world-brave-stupid Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:21:27 GMT Tom Hodgkinson Far from liberating us, technology isolates us and makes us stupid. I want no part of your sterile, bloodless brave new world

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200050 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200050 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT Tom Hodgkinson The Taste of Britain Laura Mason and Catherine Brown HarperPress, 495pp, £25 ISBN 0007241321

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200607030054 http://www.newstatesman.com/200607030054 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT Tom Hodgkinson Management guides claim that anyone can make it, if they work hard enough. By promoting this false dream, such books threaten to turn us into slaves

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]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200408300013 http://www.newstatesman.com/200408300013 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT Tom Hodgkinson Absenteeism wasn't invented at British Airways; the workers have been at it for centuries. And quite right too. Throw a sickie and get a life, urges Tom Hodgkinson

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