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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…
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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
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100% Endurance
Contrary to the unfounded assertion of TS Eliot, April is not the cruellest month, but my happiest — and by some distance too
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Struggle-Play
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…
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April 2023
What Would Salah Do?
Or: Zen Fandom: Spectator Sports As Spiritual Practice
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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
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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…
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An Oxytocin-Fuelled Haze Of Euphoria
A story about being overtaken by excitement in the company of strangers
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March 2023
Twice Buttered
“They’re repossessing everything. The bases, the ships… even Deckard. Apparently galactic law still regards him as a thing not a person.”
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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)
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Be The Miracle
Fearful sceptics have bewitched us into believing that it’s absurd to believe in humanity, their perverted tyranny twisting our minds such that a show…
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Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin & Me
'She wasn’t looking for me, she was looking for Kris Kristofferson; I wasn’t looking for her, I was looking for Brigitte Bardot.'
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