On a very recent train journey out of London to our home-destination, among the travellers who joined on one of the many stops was a man carrying a used and tired cork bulletin board with the word ‘free’ boldly written on the one side. Valdo, our border terrier, caught his attention so he plunked himself…
obedience – dead weight
My mother once told me that as a child I had my own mind and tended to do the opposite to what I was told to do. Locally, such a child would have been known as an ‘own way’ child. And there were quite a few around that small village. Retrospectively, I can now see…
Enough!
Will there ever be a limit to what we humans perceive as enough? Can ‘enough’ become what used to be known as ‘virtue ‘- specifically used here as that which is meant to be good and to serve as a sort of moral compass. It can be reasonably suggested that such a compass is currently…
politics & normalising lying
“A good politician” according to H.L. Mencken (journalist, literary critic and essayist) “is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar”. In our current political landscape across and within nations, one may find Mencken’s observation not far from what one may be thinking of current reality. What makes an honest politician? What happens to honesty, integrity and…
‘cohorts’ and decolonising
Decolonising pundits are all over the place – often crawling out of colonial woodwork to re-invent themselves and their ware in new clothing. Sooner rather than later though, the colonial hold on some pundits would be exposed. Such is the stark reminder of the provisonality of any decolonising undertaking and especially in our deploying of…
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