Category: General
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Fable 12 – Jason Compares Place A with Place B
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This short piece is an allegory. Here is a link to it. It compares opposing ways of life, or mind-sets, or brain hemispheres. Place A is a fortress defending its inhabitants from reality and truth. Place B is wide open to these things and paralysed in consequence. While Place B seems more human than Place A,…
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Lout Language as an Abuse of Power
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This piece was mostly written in the second half of October 2013. The UK Privy Council (quaint relic of a powerful medieval institution, suddenly back on stage) had just turned down a recommendation for a new form of self-regulation put to them by various representatives of the Press, the vast majority of these of a…
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Wedding words
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Two weeks ago, I gave a speech at a wedding which included this little homily : “In many ways and for various reasons I am not qualified to give advice on how to make a marriage work. But I will say what I have learned, that while delight in each other and caring for each…
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Riding the Hyphen – a ten minute film
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Here is the link to a short film : https://vimeo.com/76307847 It records – in my opinion beautifully – an evening event held in May this year, which combined live performances of new music and drama, an exhibition of photography, and a reading by me of some of my own poetry. The event marked my retirement from…
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Fable 11 – Jason nameless fights despair
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“Jason nameless fights despair” offers a kind of action-list for survival and is addressed to people losing hope. “Survival” is not meant just in the literal sense, hanging on, remaining animate, but in the sense of holding essential ground, of defending right principle and right action, and winning through, despite the lies, the seductive slogans,…
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Mental Health Witness – services must co-operate in listening to the people they serve
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This proposal has been put together in the light, not just of the recent changes in NHS service commissioning, following the present government’s determination to impose yet another revolution on the NHS, but of developments generally over the past several years. It coincides too with my own pending departure from the scene after more than…