Tag: Ricky Gervais
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Who speaks, who listens, and who is heard?
The extract above is from a statement by Ruby Cox, a former councillor in Hastings, who has been asked and asked, for months, for her version of something that happened to her but, after all this time, will anyone want to hear? I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of […]
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Terrible Fish
My blog ‘About’ Page descriptor says that I intend to write about ‘books, politics and the terrible fish.’ When I was setting up the blog site, and came to the box that said something like ‘summarise what this site is about’ I gave it about ten seconds thought. For those in the dark, Sylvia Plath […]
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Owen Jones and the Venerable Beard
In which Owen Jones struggles with a difficult idea: Chomsky reminds Jones of the hard road women have had to get their basic rights acknowledged. As you can see from the eyebrows, this is hard going for Jones, who still hasn’t grasped even the precariousness of his own history, let alone women’s – and has […]
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