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Things to do on New Year’s Eve in London Ring in the new year with the best events happening in London on New Year’s Day 2020   2020 and a new decade have arrived! Entering the new year feeling a little rough? Well, it’s time to peel yourself out of bed (or off your friend's sofa) because there’s plenty of events and things to do happening in London on New Year’s Day. Take yourself out to see the  New Year’s Day Parade, shake off the cobwebs with a  wintry stroll, have a skate around on the ice, or simply gaze at the festive lights around the city before they’re packed away. If you had a wild New Year's Eve, feed that hangover at the best breakfast spots in the capital, with a tasty roast lunch or even administer the hair of the dog with a cheeky  bottomless brunch . Just remember to double-check opening times for venues before you leave the house as they may be reduced on New Year's Day. If you’re still in a festive spirit there are still lots of  Christm

5 Ways to Develop Independent Thought   A classroom full of 10-year-old students is asked to solve a problem with children crossing the street on the way to school. The children come up with ideas that have been used successfully in other places: traffic calming devices, overpasses, fluorescent jackets and speed limits. All these ideas are conventional, exactly what the teacher wants to hear. Except for one. A student recommends that the school board sell the property and move the classroom online. This is not what the teacher was expecting. This idea may not be practical, popular, or even possible, but when it’s ridiculed by the class it might be the last independent thought that the student dares to express — the death of another independent thinker. Independent thought is not popular — it is absolutely, pricelessly, rare. Nothing you read about in the papers or see on the television is independent. Whatever we take in from the popular media is regurgitated conv