The weather gods are punishing us. When Leave voters were choosing a long-gone year to send us back to, they could have at least chosen one that had a blindingly hot, dry summer. One with a hosepipe ban. On Wednesday night, I had a fresh, zingy summer supper of… roast lamb. Drummer Boy wore a… Continue reading What we’ve learned in the last 7 days…
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Who are we, now?
I have always thought that writing is a lot like code-breaking. Especially when it comes to writing about something meaty and problematic – you have to sit there and stare at the facts, pluck ideas out of thin air and dismiss them; you have to try one angle, then another, until you find the right… Continue reading Who are we, now?
Fear is a fossil fuel
One of the very few things I remember from my final-year corpus linguistics class is that in the particular corpus (essentially a database of texts) we were using, the word “global” occurred more in the Republic of Ireland than it did in Northern Ireland. Now, before I go any further, this is not a criticism… Continue reading Fear is a fossil fuel
