CREATIVE & CRITICAL

First published, 2nd May 2014The universe is the mind in which we live. That’s all I could think of writing for this month’s blog and really, I didn’t much care to write that down either (or up, or do with it whatever one is supposed to do with words. Ideas). But I decided to write…

First published, 5th December 2014What you need, in order to win the Man Booker Prize is to win it. That may sound obvious or meaningless but it’s not. Okay, try this: what you need, in order to win the Turner Prize is to win it. See? It works there too. To understand how and, more…

First published, 9th January 2015In November 2011, soon after the fire bombing of the Charlie Hebdo offices, Time Paris bureau chief, Bruce Crumley wrote a diatribe against Charlie Hebdo. Crumley began:Okay, so can we finally stop with the idiotic, divisive, and destructive efforts by “majority sections” of Western nations to bait Muslim members with petulant, futile demonstrations…