To Hear Unspoken Words
What does this sound like to you? I am not referring to the words themselves or the syntactic make-up of the sentence but the...
For England, James?
Amid a protracted take in Sam Mendes’ Skyfall, Daniel Craig plays a pensive James Bond sat tied to a chair waiting for a lift...
The Zoomers Are Coming
I was born in 1980, too young to be gen X, too old to be a millennial. Labels elude me. However, I do have...
Throw Away Your Map
In the last article I introduced the idea that the commonplace, generally accepted and promoted scientific way of apprehending the world as a machine...
Tricksters and Fools
2020 has been one hell of a year.
It doesn’t matter who or where you are, I’m sure you’ve felt what I have. A weird,...
Survivalism 2.0
As I write this the US election results are sort-of coming along in a way that matches the rest of 2020; unpredictable and with...
Compassion
Left versus right, white versus black, dumb versus smart, young versus old. You’re too fat. You’re too skinny. You’re not rich enough. You’re too...
Quantity Culture
We live in a time of quantity, which is not the same thing as a time of abundance.
It’s a commonplace occurrence to find commentators...
