Liminal Space
When the aliens came, they brought with them their obsession for lines. Whatever dark intelligence had drawn them to this place, it lay within a […]
Thinking aloud
On Communist Hobgoblins
When Helen Macfarlane produced the first English language translation of The Communist Manifesto she began the text by saying; “A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are […]
Political organisations and mental health
Political activists are, strictly speaking, people just like anyone else. As such they suffer from the same frailties, eccentricities and foibles. While it is brilliant […]
We need to talk
What people often fail to realise is that of a man’s top 100 worst moments in his life significantly more than half will occur while […]