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...world issues The Clash purported to address in their streetwise, politicized rock. Many of the articles written about Bowie in the aftermath of his death relay familiar narratives: he was shape-shifting chameleon. He created characters, like Ziggy and Major Tom. He was never defined by one musical style. While all these have elements of truth, when I heard that Bowie had...

...world politics. Since January 1959, Cuba has been able to exert a disproportionate amount of influence on the international stage. In the 1960s, after surviving a US-backed attempt to overthrow its fledgling government, Cuba became involved in attempting to spark revolutions throughout the developing world. In the 1970s the Cuban military was dispatched to fight wars in...

...there is a relevant difference between the two cases: the one if pornography and the other is not. That still raises the question: if there are no real world consequences (and the jury is still out on that one) then do moral considerations apply in the make-believe world – whether about violence or about sex? Find out more about ethics, philosophy and the digital world...