Jan 5, 2018 | Non-Fiction |
It is this mass of unclean world that we have superimposed on the clean world that we cannot bear. When I looked back, out of the clearness of the open evening, at this Littlehampton dark and amorphous like a bad eruption on the edge of the land, I was so sick I felt...
Jun 20, 2009 | Non-Fiction |
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, there were 129 shoplifters in prison; now there are 1,400. This dark side of our consumer culture is hardly ever discussed. Prison is an easy way to deal with the symptom, but few want to look at the causes of empty lives and...
Jul 20, 2008 | Non-Fiction |
Looking around at the ornaments, it is only too easy for people from another background and a different system of values to dismiss these things as kitsch. Plastic and plaster, bright colours, not a single flower that is real. Yet to think in terms of kitsch is simply...
