Woops!

I teach an English course on the "great books" of political philosophy in tandem with a philosophy course based on the same books. After teaching J.S. Mill's "On Liberty" for a week, I've just found out that my counterpart is, unlike everyone else in the department, teaching "Utilitarianism" rather than "On Liberty". Oh dear.

There again, I resent the idea that this is some kind of "adjunct" course, so perhaps I should stick to my erroneous guns and say that it's my course and I'll teach whatever books I please. Besides, "On Liberty" is a better read than "Utilitarianism".

Good news

Back in the 1980s, Turkey used to be in the premier league for murder, up there with Nigeria, Brazil and the USA. Now, a look at this page doesn't even put us in the top sixty murder nations.