In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk

Month: September 2014

  • Time for leaving, time for anything

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    I am about to move house and to start a new life in a city still strange to me.  Among all the many moments I have to give to packing and managing the move, I have found a few spare to write this. But snatching at moments seems an image for us all, in our…

  • WHERE ONE IS THE OTHER MUST BE

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      This England this Bling land   this Bling and Buy Land this Hack and Spy Land   this Try a Lie Land this Me and My Land   We’re all in this together in Me and Mine Land.   What price the soul in Buy and Lie Land,   my lord ? “Price ?…

  • The Night Before

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    I wonder when the point of exhaustion is reached, north of the border. By now, most people know what they will vote tomorrow and many have anyway already voted, casting their die. But some there will be who even now don’t know and may be agonising tonight. They may be the best of all the…

  • The Scottish Referendum : odd thoughts

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    The campaign has not just energised Scots and many more – it will surely have embittered many, too. How will Scotland fare once the decision is made and the “sides” stand back from the barricades, the losers looking at the winners in the eye ? Will they help each other put the barricades away ?…