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Orlando Crowcroft is a journalist and life-long heavy metal fan and has interviewed bands throughout the Middle East for Rolling Stone, Atlantic and Esquire. He is the co-author of the Lonely Planet Guide to Israel and the Palestinian Territories (2015) and has reported from a dozen countries including Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In 2014, he reported from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza for The Guardian and The National. He now lives in London.
Rosa is a journalist from London. She primarily writes for U mag, a magazine that goes out to the 1.3 million members of UNISON, the public services union. She has also been published on the Guardian, The Independent, the New Humanist, the New Internationalist and others.
Rosa is a journalist from London. She primarily writes for U mag, a magazine that goes out to the 1.3 million members of UNISON, the public services union. She has also been published on the Guardian, The Independent, the New Humanist, the New Internationalist and others.
Nathalie Nahai is a web psychologist, international speaker and author of the best-selling book, Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion (Pearson).  The foremost expert in web psychology, Nathalie helps businesses apply scientific rigour to their website design, content marketing and products. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, design agencies and SMEs, including Google, eBay, Unilever and Harvard Business Review, to name a few. Nathalie lectures internationally on the digital application of behavioural sciences, co-hosts the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast, and contrib
Nathalie Nahai is a web psychologist, international speaker and author of the best-selling book, Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion (Pearson).  The foremost expert in web psychology, Nathalie helps businesses apply scientific rigour to their website design, content marketing and products. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, design agencies and SMEs, including Google, eBay, Unilever and Harvard Business Review, to name a few. Nathalie lectures internationally on the digital application of behavioural sciences, co-hosts the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast, and contrib

Manchester, monsters and the issue of evil

What better definition of an abnormally cruel person than that he or she presided over or participated in abnormal cruelties?

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What better definition of an abnormally cruel person than that he or she presided over or participated in abnormal cruelties?

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