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Book of the year (Fiction)
Paul Murray’s second novel Skippy Dies, is my pick of this year’s contemporary fiction. The cliché so often applied to great examples of mainstream fiction; “It’ll make you laugh, It’ll make you cry” has never, for me, been as applicable as … Continue reading
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Oxymoron of the day
“analysis from the Economist Intelligence Unit.”
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Aphorism
Why do we offer congratulations to those who inform us of their pregnancy when, surely, condolences should be offered instead?
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Untitled Microfiction #2
Vondogood insouciantly adjusted a minature, greaslicked follicle from its reverential site atop his brow. This apparently perfunctory correction of his appearance was, however, novel, given his normal extreme disvanity and indifference to any constructed image which other may have of … Continue reading
Aphorism
Our will towards a painless, infinite life is driving the construction of our extinction.
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Untitled Micro-Fiction #1
It is entirely possible that existence may have reached a permanent feedback loop. The exponential development of the real and the “really” existing solutions to various technical problems are reflected out to recipient consciousnesses which subsequently become reliant, whether they … Continue reading
UK- Israel Relations and Universal Jurisdiction
The suspension of the rather nebulous “strategic dialogue” between the UK and Israeli governments announced last year is predicated upon the most extraordinary attempt to subvert international law, to which the UK government is not only complicit but active. The … Continue reading
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The Retrenchment of the Surveillance State
Alex Deane in the New Statesman points to an interesting element of the wonderfully solipsistic Strategic Defence Review published on Thursday. He points, quite rightly to the, apparent reversal of the Coalition’s stated aim of rolling back the intrusive surveillance … Continue reading
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