I read a very good article this morning, about something I have been thinking about for a while, but lacked evidence other than a gut feeling. It’s a review of a couple of books about education and radicalisation, and got to the heart of my unease about the instrumentalisation of education, as a tool for […]
Slightly foolish
Of course, html markup will do the job for links and paragraph breaks and so on. The GF has gone to Johor for work and I’m taking the opportunity to explore Netflix. The television is usually his domain – I certainly do not object, having always found it a bit oppressive, but there is certainly […]
A dark age
In the subsequent ‘dark ages’ – a propaganda term used by the elite – democracy and culture could flourish. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey date from the dark age of Greece. This is in marked contrast to the consequences of state collapse today, now that there is no longer an external barbarian world to escape into. […]
Old friend
I met a very old friend after very many years last night. We had been friends when we were about nine, now it is 28 years later. We were at school together in Karachi, and then I moved to Lahore. She came once and visited, but then we drifted apart as children do. We reconnected […]
Just recompense
I read an article (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/16/magazine/uncounted-civilian-casualties-iraq-airstrikes.html) this morning, about the civilian casualties of the coalition air strikes on ISIS. An impressive piece of journalism. One thing that struck me was how compensation has a different value for givers and receivers. My email-to-post is doing me well, but I am yet to figure out (a) paragraph breaks […]
Success at last!
What a very productive morning it has been. I have finally got email posting to work (so no excuses for irregular posts), went to the bank and sent off deposits for two holiday bookings, wrote an op-ed, sent off the paperwork for a new contract and completed the application for another contract. I also had […]
Trying again
This is another attempt to post by email.
Rush rush
Today is a deadline and much remains to be done! Sisters arrive tomorrow and there is no food in the flat. Ah well, they are only sisters.
Failed effort
My effort to simplify regular posting failed as a plugin to post by email doesn’t seem to work. I have yesterday’s post backed up. How annoying.
Some help, perhaps
The woman at the shelter left for Pakistan today. I think I was of some help, in retrospect. I insisted that she call the shelter and go there, getting away from the house – I don’t think she was ready to until then. I was a familiar voice speaking her language and in the same […]