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Thirty Four Storeys, A Million Stories

In a world where deeper meaning is becoming increasingly fractured by social networking and wall to wall distraction, the need to impose a meaning on the Grenfell Tower tragedy has seemed irresistible.
3 July, 2017/by marius

Covfefe

The potentially diabolical power of words is reaching its apotheosis thanks to a growing movement to disempower our language.
24 June, 2017/by marius

You’re once, twice, three times…

Over fifty years since the flammability of Playtex was tested, the meaning of “Feminism” is being torn apart both from within and without the movement.
24 May, 2017/by marius

#SteveJobsMustFall

No street in this city is without the shuffling zombie, bowed heads, of your human data mines, transfixed by their screens. You, Steve, created the habit forming machine par excellence.
24 April, 2017/by marius

Delete the elite?

In June we were asked a bloody complicated question ... We could have done with an educated ‘elite’ that we could trust, to take the time to examine it
7 March, 2017/by marius

Gill and Brill

A.A. Gill had a secret. He and Adrian Gill were not exactly the same man.
8 February, 2017/by marius

Christmas Ghosts

Now is the time to think of them. The dead have a history of being summoned up as the year draws to its end. The Christmas ghost story is a meme that stretches back much further than Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
18 December, 2016/by marius

My Life as an Anarchist

Anarchy as a real life meme has stealthy evolved into one of the defining political forces of our time
9 November, 2016/by marius

It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

Why are we so angry? Why are we so mad? Who has lit our f***ing ire?
9 October, 2016/by marius

End of Daze

I love the ideas that liberalism champions. It’s something I’d fight for. But I am starting to fear it’s too weak, too ethereal, too nice to survive against the omnipotence of angry gods and the raging impotence of global poverty.
9 September, 2016/by marius

So don’t tell me to move on.

Whether we trigger Article 50, whether we leave the EU or not, the severity of the divide that has been unmasked in this country will not heal in a few days with a thin “just buck up” message.
9 July, 2016/by marius

#genashame

I am deeply, mortifyingly, ashamed of my generation.
9 June, 2016/by marius
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