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The Getaway Guide for Men – Rome!
The eternal city has more culture, romance and swarthiness than George Clooney and Penelope Cruz’s lovechild draped in Dolce & Gabbana. Even people who haven’t visited know this to be true and, for this reason, it’s deemed the most romantic city in the world. Feared by all ‘blokey-blokes’ as the place most likely to bore...
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Giant buildings slowly shrivel to dwarves As my distance from them grows Their unending sounds and blaring lights Are deafened and dimmed by the tunnel As it siphons me away Through the tunnel and over the hill The air thickens and is made visible The land appears craterous and dead No pedestrians to be...
The Other Women
This week I had a very fortuitous encounter, an encounter that made me think a lot more about a topic that’s been playing on my mind for quite some time. I met two very interesting women, not only interesting but very strong, individual and potent within their art. As a first meeting it was quite...
Perspective: Am I a Writer?
I was fortunate enough to walk straight from my Masters degree in English Literature and into a job working in the arts. And not merely ‘the arts’ generally, but specifically a literature organisation. This has been a thrilling experience, and the job itself has provided opportunities to learn about fundraising, event management, online features, talent-spotting, budgets,...
The Artist as Activist (or George Clooney gets arrested)
Last week Hollywood actor George Clooney was arrested after failing to comply with police at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington DC. He told journalists he was “just trying to raise attention” about the situation in southern Sudan where military action supposedly targeting terrorists is devastating civilian populations, and aid is still...
A Thought on Mothering Sunday: Nature Versus Nurture?
Today, most girls in their late teens and early twenties are geared towards careers and education; furthering the self is purportedly essential to the modern woman, and it is the rare girl who chooses motherhood at a young age over the experience of a full and hedonistic youth. However, only twenty-five years ago, it was...
Sic Semper Tyrannis: The Legacy of Kim Jong-il
Imagine that God is dead. Not in an allegorical, Nietzschian sense, but literally. The physical being you believe represents everything good in the world, whom you have worshipped since you were a child, is gone. The being whose birth, you believe, “…was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over...
A Cavilling Christmas!
“Ear shredding hail Inside out brollies Thundering gales Last-second shopping Can’t wait for Sales Mum said wear layers Remember daylight? Train Deeelllaaaaayss!! Or cancellations Icy roads Slip on your arse And a partridge in a pear tree!” Ah Christmas is upon us once again and for the second year in a row my December is...
