So we’ve got a crisis. It’s not the end of the world, is it? Why are all politicians like the high priests of greed, preaching that the gods must be appeased with sacrifices made by us, ordinary mortals? We have to go to war, to take a pay freeze, to endure cuts in services. It’s like a litany of misery. But we don’t have to follow the depressing “there is… [...]
October 30, 2011
So we’ve got a crisis. It’s not the end of the world, is it? Why are all politicians like the high priests of greed, preaching that the gods must be appeased with sacrifices made by us, ordinary mortals? We have to go to war, to take a pay freeze, to endure cuts in services. It’s like a litany of misery. But we don’t have to follow the depressing “there is… [...]
Since it became law, it’s been fashionable to denigrate the Human Rights Act.
Most criticism of it is hopelessly ill-informed. But the Home Secretary’s recent claim that it prevented an illegal immigrant from being deported because he owned a cat is so ridiculous that even the most ardent believer in human rights would not object to her, and any cat she may own, being fired out of the… [...]
October 29, 2011
There’s always one who keeps the revolution waiting and, as I was running five minutes late to meet the marchers on a drizzly Thursday morning in mid October, I was worried it would be me.
Fortunately I was not the last one to arrive, and so began my small part in the 2011 Jarrow March for Jobs which, over five weeks, would travel from Jarrow in the North-East
October 28, 2011
“Here in the West the nature of the world was traditionally understood with developing symbolic geometry in philosophy and art. In the ancient world architecture, music, astronomy and divination were based on a unified code of number and proportion which represented the objective foundation pattern of the universe.” – John Michell, 1997
One of the current age’s great downfalls is a misconstrued individualism supported by the ‘information age’… [...]
October 27, 2011
I quite like Simon. He is like the school teacher that would pull you aside after class and list, for an hour, every bad aspect of your personality and why you will never get anywhere while you nod and pretend to listen while thinking about how tight Sally Watts jeans were that day and wishing you were at home playing Choplifter on the family’s new Amstrad.
I worked with… [...]