The Centre Cannot Hold

I don’t doubt that you’ve all encountered what I think of as ‘Cultured Spaces.’ These are spaces that are set aside exclusively for the use of one particular group to the exclusion of all others. You often find them at universities - rooms for women, for queer and transgendered people, for members of [...]

There are basically two types of epic fantasy novel being written today. And by epic, I basically mean long. Understand, I have no quibble with a high fantasy story using low fantasy characterisation, or any other such admixture of tropes. You gotta do something to keep the genre fresh, and besides, one [...]

It’s a great thing that our Prime Minister has officially said Sorry. It truly is. I am wholly in support of him in this matter.
It’s just…
…is it enough?
And by this, I don’t mean, is there more to be done, but rather, is there more apologising to be done?

I didn’t title this blog just on a whim. I’ve always loved Yeats, but moreover, The Second Coming speaks to me (as I imagine it does to each of us, in our ways).
“The Centre Cannot Hold,” says Yeats. Oh yes. Oh very very yes.
I tend to think that the reason the centre [...]

Welcome back to part two, in which I’ll be talking about lie detection and lie telling, and, just incidentally, reaching a few conclusions.

Everybody lies.
Oh, you can claim otherwise, but you will, of course, be lying if you do so.
C’mon, we all know that everyone else lies – is it truly that big a leap to admit that you do too? Oh no. You lie, and you know you lie. I won’t humiliate you by trying to trap [...]