Paul W.B. Marsden

Paul Marsden has led an eventful life from humble origins born to working class parents in a council house in Cheshire. He was elected in 1997 as one of the youngest Labour MPs in the Blairite government. However, after 9/11 he crossed the floor of the House of Commons to the Liberal Democrats. He resolutely opposed the war in Iraq and held an independent voice in his new party to the point of regular rebellion that made him re-cross the floor, becoming the first MP to do so since Winston Churchill.

After retiring from politics in 2005, he worked as Policy Director for an anti-animal testing charity before returned to working as a senior manager in civil engineering and construction projects on Quality Management Systems, IT, and digital innovation. He recently introduced artificial intelligence to planning and programming on a £5bn rail improvement megaproject.

He contributed to the 2001 book Voices for Peace, wrote a local history on the Black Friars of Shrewsbury in 2006, and authored Digital Quality Management in Construction in 2019.

Works involving Paul W.B. Marsden

Philosophers and the Meaning of Life

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What is 'the meaning of life'? This book aims to summarise and discuss 3,500 years of philosophy on the topic in order to make these ideas accessible to the layperson. It aims to cover the most important thinkers who addressed the meaning of and in life in their work, and from their ideas emerges a possible model of a 'Best Self'.

Works involving Paul W.B. Marsden

Philosophers and the Meaning of Life

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