Tasting the Rainbow
Travellers to Britain are advised that they may run into a type of person colloquially…
Year: 2010
An Olympics in the Shade
I don’t recall the last time a Winter Olympics began with the death of one…
The Impossibility of Angels
Yesterday, I attended an activists’ training course which was held at my union’s headquarters in…
Home Sweet Home
The British have a talent for self-deprecation. For someone with American origins this is nothing…
A Prayer for Contingency
Last October, my parents paid a visit to London. They spent the first few days…
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
I’ve recently acquired the DVDs for the programme, “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”, which…
The Politics of Waste
Commentators often try to obscure simple truths by utilising the dry vocabulary of economics. Behind…
A Touch of Lime
The economist John Maynard Keynes once famously said to a questioner, “When the facts change,…