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Checking out
The amazing dog Hakunica took her last walk almost a year ago now, in May of 2020. She was stiff and sore, still joyful and absolutely up for her days,...
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Stevens (W), Wagner (R), and clotting (Verran, H).
The man bent over his guitar, a shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, “You have a blue guitar. You do not play things as they are.” The...
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Universities: propositions for a future
The ratcheting stresses of economic injustice and a tangibly deteriorating global environment are fuelling populism, fascism, and fundamentalism across the planet. I believe that we are on the cusp of...
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Incomprehensibly xenophobic
So what’s the word for a Brexiteer free market true believer who simply can’t grasp that most people choose life over ideology? Something succinct, like “tankie”, would do. ‘ [the...
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Cancelling the TV License
Here in the UK, most people pay a separate subscription to support the BBC; it’s called a TV License, and I have always seen it as being like a voluntary...