I spent the week incarcerated in Calais. It lead me to contemplate the unimaginable horror of prison life.
Tag: Violence
Gillette Advertisement Controversy
Good on Gillette: it would be hard to deny that male aggression has played a vast and malignant role in our history.
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Will the meek inherit the earth?
For some years I have assumed that far from inheriting the earth, the meek will be trampled underfoot. I am beginning to wonder whether I am mistaken.
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The Internet Troll and the Origins of Conflict
Internet forums are the perfect place to understand the petty origins of conflict. The Troll must be studiously ignored.
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Fauda – Do we, Should we Watch It?
My latest Netflix Binge is Fauda – a violent, compelling and visually superb take on the Arab Israeli conflict.
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Psalm 137: Happy the one who takes your little ones, and dashes them against the rock.
Someone in Canterbury Cathedral (the Dean perhaps?) decided that Verse 9 was going a little far .
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Division and indoctrination, greed, violence and politics.
Why does society have to be so divisive? Why does political posturing have to increase polarization and seek to indoctrinate?
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A Moral Dilemma
My own petty, unimportant and irrelevant moral dilemma should teach me something about the world and how to improve it.
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The Absurdity of Land Ownership
How has it come to pass that a tiny handful own the vast majority of this tiny spaceship we call the Earth?
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Right Honourable Gentlemen
There can hardly be a sight so little edifying as the Right Honourable Gentlemen of the House of Commons in full debate.
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War – Why do the Nations rage?
War has its origins in the very first animal life to evolve on earth.
