The Geecologist

The Human Factor

The Human Factor

Nov 10, 2008 | Lies | 0 comments

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path that keeps the indent of footsteps. He had read from this one to Sam several times during the last two years, but the footsteps of his own childhood had dug deeper and the book opened on...
Climate Change Bill intro

Climate Change Bill intro

Nov 2, 2008 | Truth | 0 comments

I end by paying tribute not to those in the House, but to those outside it: those who saw the dangers of climate change and the actions that needed to be taken long before the politicians did. I pay tribute to the scientists who detected the problem, the campaigners...
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

Oct 28, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies | 0 comments

It surprised him, as though, in penetrating a familiar cave, on some holiday at the sea, he had observed on a familiar rock the primeval painting of a human face which he had always mistaken before for a chance pattern of fungi. And now you could read... The Human...
Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog

Oct 19, 2008 | Lies | 0 comments

And the words enveloped him like an unrecognisable fart, saying: yes, oh yes, this is you, this is you. And now you could read... A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush But Beautiful The Pandemic is a Portal The Furious Passage of James Baldwin...
Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog

Oct 12, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies | 0 comments

To Xan’s dark-adapting eye the faceless waiter now looked implausibly young: he seemed about to recommend a glass of milk. ‘I’ll have what you have,’ she said. All the more reason, then, to order an ocean of blue ruin. And now you could read......
Cool Memories

Cool Memories

Sep 19, 2008 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies | 0 comments

It is true that we no longer have a culture of leisure, in which thought and writing were violent and pleasurable. And our leisure now is no more than the charnel-house where dead time is born. And now you could read... Red Brocade You, dead, are so much better than...