Food crisis
Wonderful article in the December New Internationalist about the global food crisis. As the magazine points out, we hear a lot about the financial crisis, but comparatively little…
Quote for the day
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.…
“The Steep Approach to Garbadale” by Iain Banks
I particularly liked that although most of the story is told from Alban's point of view, he is described at first from…
Night Bus published
My short story Night Bus was recently published in issue 13 of Smoke: A London Peculiar. Among all the young, drunk people…
“The Politics of Experience” by R.D. Laing
What if the "delusions" reported by patients during psychotic episodes were not symptoms of a disease, but valid descriptions of their experiences?
House style
The editing is finished. The book is at the printers. An enthusiastic blurb appeared on the Legend Press website, so presumably they’re…
The Triumph of Triviality
We are the people of tomorrow, we have more stuff than anybody's ever had before, and we are so stupid and self-absorbed…
Americans in the gulag
Just caught a fascinating piece in the Times Literary Supplement about the thousands of Americans who, either out of idealism or to…