May 2, 2020 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
The Sporting Spirit Sport is an unfailing cause of ill-will. And how could it be otherwise? I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at...
Apr 20, 2020 | Campaigns, Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
A lot of people have already written a lot of interesting responses to the Covid-19 situation, including a lot of people predicting what will come next. It can be overwhelming trying to keep up with the sudden total focus of thinkers on a single issues (this is part...
Apr 9, 2020 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the...
Mar 28, 2020 | Travel, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my guess that other tongues in these islands also possessed wealths of words for features of place – words that together constituted a vast vanished, or vanishing, language for...
Mar 14, 2020 | Travel, Truth, Truth & Lies |
He squatted down, arranging the fire, shouting back over his shoulder into the hut, ‘My grandfather was the greatest sorcerer in Dongou, Uncle. Everybody knows. They all know the story. The Chief of Dongou, now, he also was powerful in the spirit way, and in the...
Feb 27, 2020 | Essays, Lies, Truth & Lies
Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...