Reading Chomsky
When I first started reading Noam Chomsky’s work it was with a large amount of, dare I say it, shock and awe. Every few sentences I went scurrying…
Who’s your audience?
I love watching Chris Rock. He’s one of the few stand-up comedians who is pretty much guaranteed to make me laugh every…
The crime of compassion
Sometimes I think I have become so cynical that I am no longer capable of feeling true outrage. I have come to…
The waters are rising…….
Something strange is happening here. I lived in Britain for about 20 years and never heard much about flooding. There were occasional…
Children as possessions
I was on the bus the other day when a young mother came on with a child in a pushchair. The child…
Which group are you in?
I am belatedly getting around to writing about an excellent post over on Colonise This! It really got me thinking, not so…
Fear-based foreign policy
I’m not a very quick thinker. That’s why I don’t post every day, several times a day, responding to the latest news…