You have a throbbing head ache. You might be a little blind, perhaps white spots are appearing in front of your eyes. Maybe you even feel nauseous. Your overriding desire is to get as far away as possible. Yes, that’s right: you have just got out of a meeting. I wish I could say that [...]
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WAYS OF WRITING—A PERSONAL COMPARISON
…I will now claim–until dispossessed–that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature…The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects–devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so [...]
THE QUEEN OF PARADOX
Human affairs…in which nearly everything is paradoxical. —Emmanuel Kant The media frenzy fizzled, patriotic sentiment defused, nostalgia negated—we can now explore the divided opinion and split interpretation of R.I.P Margaret Thatcher. Whether that is ‘rest in peace’ or ‘rust in peace,’ as some protesters shouted, is hard to determine. “Margaret Thatcher was the best Prime [...]
ONLINE PROTEST: TROLL-DODGING AND DETACHMENT
Activism has never been e-asier. Going are the days of frostbitten picket lines, of lying prostrate in front of impending bulldozers and of eco-squatting in the next Amazonian tree to be felled by cut-throat conglomerates. These days there’s very little need to risk your own neck in order to protect the ideals nearest and dearest [...]
