Melting ice shelfs
Do you ever have that experience where something you’ve known for a long time suddenly hits you as it’s never hit you before? That happened to me this weekend. Here’s what set it off. Every few days another huge chunk…
Good company
Just noticed that my secondary school, Dulwich College, added news of my book to its website. Also learned from the site that some very good writers went to Dulwich: Raymond Chandler, PG Wodehouse, CS Forester, Graham Swift and Michael Ondaatje…
Post-racial America
Please, somebody give me a non-racist explanation for this cartoon. Please.
How to explain the credit crunch to a five-year-old
1. The government promised Mummy and Daddy they would be happy if they spent their lives working to make someone else rich. 2. Mummy and Daddy did what they were told, but ended up with jack shit. 3. The rich…
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. Paulo Freire
Consume less, live more!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4OPFl2Kxhs&hl=en&fs=1] From Friends of the Earth, https://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/livemore. Seen originally as a cartoon in New Internationalist, August 2008
Hakamada Iwao
In Japan, a prisoner on death row wakes up every morning not knowing if he will be executed that day. The prisoner doesn’t know his execution date until the morning it is to be carried out. His family only finds…