Aug 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction |
It is sunset, the sound of sirens is less frequent outside now in Hackney (E8), and it seems like the right time to reflect for a minute on the ‘London riots’. To set some context for this, I (slightly begrudgingly) thought Penny Red’s blog was very...
Mar 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction |
Among the nearly half million protestors who came to London yesterday to March for the Alternative, there were actually a ‘handful of idiots’. STOP THE PRESS! PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT AND EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN DIFFERENT WAYS. The superb UK Uncut action in...
Feb 18, 2010 | Non-Fiction |
The big fear is that as modern life becomes more ‘modern’ and empowering, it actually fragments society into mere isolated individualisms and loses any sense of purpose or order. Attempts to combat this have included: Nationalism, trying to draw people together under...
Feb 17, 2010 | Non-Fiction |
In the early 80s, when the metallurgical industry in the Lorraine region entered its final crisis, the public powers had the idea to make up for this collapse by creating a European leisure zone, an “intelligent” theme park which could jumpstart the...
Oct 10, 2009 | Non-Fiction |
Ecology became a way of life and a daily practice for us, although that did not stop us from feeling that what was needed was a completely different civilisation. I’d reached the age where you ask yourself what you’ve done with your life, what you would...
Sep 12, 2009 | Non-Fiction |
You refused to follow the fashion and had your own ideas about what to wear. You refused to let advertising or marketing supply you with needs you didn’t feel. On holidays, we’d stay either ‘with a family’ in Spain, or in modest hotels or...
