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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Read more: Out of the mouths of babes and sucklingsAnyone who was anyone reading about anyone in the early seventies will have come across Janov and primal scream therapy. Apart from giving a name to a good rock band, primal scream experience involves getting to the emotional core of your being by having a good yell or two. Well, probably a lot more than… Know More
Shorn (of respect) Connery
Read more: Shorn (of respect) ConneryCurrently, one of the television channels in the UK is running a top one hundred of the most embarrassing/obnoxious/gets-on-your-tits individuals of this past year. I have no idea if SIR Sean Connery is one of these but he should be. This tartan Bahamian (The King of Scotland should have been about him not Idi Amin)… Know More
Is there anyone out there?
Read more: Is there anyone out there?I’ve written a few essayists on the question of reality and identity posed by the artificial worlds developed by arcade and internet programmers. If we enter these worlds in avatar form (constructed selves built to our individual specifications of desire and need) are we experiencing and learning (or not) in the same way that would… Know More
Facebook: Now you see us now you don’t
Read more: Facebook: Now you see us now you don’tWe are apparently nearer to a CCTV camera than we are to a rat in the sense that CCTV watches us more of the time than rats do – and make no mistake, those rodent eyes bore into you wherever you go. And as if this surveillance was not enough, some huge proportion of us… Know More
Sharia, no fear, not here – or anywhere
Read more: Sharia, no fear, not here – or anywhereAs I wrote, probably longwindedly, in an earlier blog, there should be no blurring of state affairs and religious dogma. It doesn’t matter whether it is American fundamentalist Christians or Mormons, Islamists from wherever, the Vatican’s long nose in South America, Zionism or any as yet unknown future attempt to pervert the course of justice… Know More
Better the Government We Deserve than the Government We Get
Read more: Better the Government We Deserve than the Government We GetIt is an anomaly as painful as it is real. Political leaders do not represent the cream of generations. They are rarely credible enough for their nations to feel even minimal respect. In most cases they would not rise to the top of a multinational company or professions such as medicine or philosophy or astro-physics.… Know More
Of Capital NIghtmayors…
Read more: Of Capital NIghtmayors…Having had a life spent in both the north and the south of England (and with a family in Scotland) and, latterly, living in East Anglia and Surrey but working in the north (Manchester, Sheffield etc) it has been borne home to me that there IS a divide in the country. When, finally, I come… Know More
No Country for Old Men: the film of the book
Read more: No Country for Old Men: the film of the bookI read Cormac McCarthy’s book of the same name, a month or two back, saw the Coen Brothers film yesterday and watched the Newsnight critics half-dismiss it the same evening. There was some praise but, in the main, they felt it was over-hyped. One found the psychopath, Chigurh, robotic, a mechanical killer and the whole… Know More
Caution – Lust may not be erotic!
Read more: Caution – Lust may not be erotic!I saw Ang Lee’s latest film at the weekend. I had the same reaction to it as I did to Brokeback Mountain. A long, very stylish but somewhat vacuous film which depended on a single taboo to keep the audiences filing in. In his cowboy predecessor it was, of course, the love that could not… Know More
Parents! Get a life and leave your kids alone…
Read more: Parents! Get a life and leave your kids alone…I met a bloke once who got irate with me when I said all private schools should be abolished. He explained that he was (relatively) poor because he was sending all three of his children to private school, just like his parents did with him and his sister. There was no way he would entertain… Know More