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10 Years Of No Borders

Teaching English in Calais, skipping food out of bins and staying up all night watching for police raids gave me a new belief system, one with no room…

May 26 •

The Secret Society Of Lost Hats

One of the day’s less interesting roadside flotsam compared to the drifts of cotton fruit and the odd tortoise

May 19 •

Contrary to the unfounded assertion of TS Eliot, April is not the cruellest month, but my happiest — and by some distance too

May 12 •

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You’ve not got much to report when you get home, besides a desultory slideshow that might have well have been Xeroxed from your thinly used copy of…

May 5 •

What Would Salah Do?

Or: Zen Fandom: Spectator Sports As Spiritual Practice

Apr 28 •

The Stars Are People-Gazing

FACT: A bull in a china shop (or, indeed, a bull in a china closet) doesn’t actually break anything

Apr 21 •

Interrupt, Gloriously

While connecting with strangers is (usually) a beautiful thing, what perhaps we need most is the courage to connect with the people we already know…

Apr 14 •

An Oxytocin-Fuelled Haze Of Euphoria

A story about being overtaken by excitement in the company of strangers

Apr 7 •

“They’re repossessing everything. The bases, the ships… even Deckard. Apparently galactic law still regards him as a thing not a person.”

Mar 31 •

Antischismogenetic Equifinality

Today’s story is little more than the smashing together of two fancy words that I learned recently. (And, actually, one of them I made up)

Mar 24 •

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