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Ancient and modern

What Socrates and Harriet Harman have in common

A refreshingly classical approach to apology

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

Since apologising has recently been all the rage, refusing to apologise, as Harriet Harman has done over the NCCL’s connection with the Paedophile Information Exchange, comes as a very pleasant surprise. Ancient Greeks would have understood exactly what she was doing.

Socrates’ Apology (written by Plato) had nothing to do with apologising.

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