how to win the man booker prize — an essay on fatalism and urinals
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…
coming to a town near you: islam, fideism and the slide into dhimmitude
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…
mocking malvolio — monotheism and the big ‘shut up’
First published, 15th January 2015It’s intriguing that when those who put their lives on the line in defence of their right to free speech, others so readily use it to condemn them. I wanted to get my final thoughts written down before public domain discourse returns to shopping, kittens, puppies, Easter eggs and all the other…
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