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Past Imperfect, Future Tense

Metameleiaphobia. The fear of regret. It doesn’t just drive the mid-life crisis, it misinforms some really appalling decision making.
5 April, 2019/by marius

Can’t you take a joke? Jeez.

Irony is a truth found in the least expected place.
4 March, 2019/by marius

This is Me(me)

“Identity Politics”, and its populist backlash, is taking the West by storm, forcing us all to take sides, imposing a collectivism we would never have imagined.
2 February, 2019/by marius

Post Truth

Value is an act of faith. It is as real, rational, or empirically substantial as gods, demons, fairy tales, vampires and the origin of a denied fart.
10 December, 2018/by marius

I Vant To Be Alone

The problem comes when an entire nation behaves like a moody, depressed, anxiety-ridden teenager.
10 November, 2018/by marius

Ctrl-Z

If we’re rewriting the events we’re uncomfortable with, what we’re replacing them with are just, well, stories.
12 October, 2018/by marius

Noted

The desire to have some thing, that excuses us for behaving the way we actually do – rather than the way we know we should – seems an almost quintessential human urge. 
10 September, 2018/by marius

On/Off

Is it any wonder that we feel we’re living in an age of extremes when extremes are all that are talked about?
12 August, 2018/by marius

Feedback – Everyone’s a Critic

The requirement for feedback has mechanised me, I’ve become a human response bot.
12 July, 2018/by marius

Let me demonstrate

Pity the poor moderate centrists who have no experience, or history, of protest; they’ve never had a reason to raise a mob, to march or storm the gates. But with Brextremists both in power and in opposition, centrists are realising that they need to learn. Fast.
19 June, 2018/by marius

Re: Born

Springtime directly led to one of the most dangerous ideas, if not THE most dangerous idea, to affect humanity.
16 May, 2018/by marius

Democrafatigue

On Thursday 3rd of May, on the face of it, all we’re doing is electing a bunch of faceless Council bureaucrats to oversee our parking permits and deny us planning permissions for our basements. But, in reality, this is the last official democratic opportunity to put our opinion to Parliament before Brexit.
9 April, 2018/by marius
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