I FORMED AN INCURABLE addiction at a tender age, which speaks to my residence here at the asylum. The illness lacks a formal name, but it is a compulsion to explore matters beyond our grasp. Whatever the virtue of being consumed with fundamental issues, it is not a healthy pursuit in a force-fed culture. Socrates [...]
BY WILL PATCHING The hapless Gordon. What opportunistic politics devolve into. May 16th, 2008 So, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is considering hosting a TV reality show in an effort to boost his image. The idea was mooted in some confidential Cabinet briefing notes recently photographed while being carelessly paraded by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. The [...]
By Will Patching “Sinn Fein was the political front for Catholic terrorists, the self-styled Irish Republican Army (IRA), whose aim was to remove the British from Northern Ireland, at times using indiscriminate bombing against civilian targets. Its leaders proudly declared they would achieve their aims with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle [...]