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The peak summer travel months are upon us, and that means millions of people the world over are packing a bag and setting off to somewhere else 鈥?maybe a familiar every-summer destination, maybe on a new adventure. This summer travel season is projected to be among the busiest on record.But why travel at all In a viral essay for the New Yorker, the philosophy professor Agnes Callard makes The Case Against Travel, quoting the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, who writes: The idea of travelling nauseates me 鈥?Ah, let those who dont exist travel! 鈥?Travel is for those who cannot feel 鈥?Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to move around to feel. Travel may nauseate Pessoa and, it seems, Callard . But the idea of only imagining rather than doing, and living life primarily in ones own head and gazing inward at ones own fee stanley deutschland lings, nauseates me 鈥?and is a recipe not for a reflective life, but a lonely and solipsistic one even if one is a p stanley becher rofessor of philosophy whose job it is to stew in ones own thoughts .Stockholm on a shoestringRead moreHuman beings are a varied bunch, and virtually nothing is for everyone. There are people out there who just arent that into food and dont really care if what theyre eating tastes good as long as it keeps them alive enough of them, it seems, to justify the invention of Soyl stanley cup ent . There are people who dont see much value in art, who find nature too primitive, who are repulsed by children or other human beings, who cannot handl Runc I broke down : new law will let students take mental health days
Nick Cohen argues that the government has no choice but to deport terrorist suspects such as Abu Qatada, even though they face a seriou stanley termos s risk of tor stanley romania ture. What would you do instead he asks in response to Human Rights Watch s argument that this policy is illegal, immoral and counterproductive. Where the government has evidence of someone s involvement in wrongdoing, it should prosecute. Where there is insufficient evidence to prosecute, it should gather the material necessary to do so through police investigation.One key obstacle to the prosecution of terrorism suspects is not the admirable refusal of the law lords to permit British courts to use evidence obtained under torture elsewhere, but the government s inexplicable reluctance to relax the ban on phone-tapping evidence. Instead, it undermines the global ban on torture by seeking to send suspects back to police states where torture is used against opponents. Tom Porteous Human Rights Watch London N1Nick Cohen s extreme alternative Opinion, last week to the questionable policy of memoranda of understanding , indicates we badly need new ideas. Failing prosecution in the holding country, surely an international solution with guaranteed safeguards is the way forward; this is a global issue, which demands a global solution. Could it take the form stanley termos of a third-party country or countries becoming the host for persona non grata Could such places come under the jurisdiction of an internationally financed body such as th