Category Archives: Writing

Alongside the inner ring road in my home town is a skeletal structure which, to a visitor to the town, looks like a building on its way to completion. Yet to anyone who who isn’t just passing by they know that this structure has been in its current form for nearly 4 years.Its skeletal stateContinue reading “Ghosts”

Do you feel like an angst-ridden teenager at 28? Which no confirmation of true age, when confronted with an ever-more aging face staring back at you from every reflection, can eradicate? With the ever-mounting pressure to remain young, to be hip, adventurous and to be eternally striving to advance oneself and be ‘living’ the highContinue reading “The Quintessential Young Person-alienation That Now Carries on Into Later Life”

I used to find In Rainbows the most difficult album to listen to by Radiohead. Not because I found it a worse album than the rest of the (post Pablo honey) albums, just because there was something I found deeply uncomfortable about it, a truth in it that I couldn’t/or didn’t want to acknowledge rightContinue reading “2012: Dedicated to all humans”

It is so hard to stay in tune to the immanence of something. It’s so hard to know when things are happening for sure. I await confirmation but, partly because we don’t know and partly because we don’t want to know, it never arrives. Yet I get pangs of dread on days like this one:Continue reading “Everything’s moving so fast that it seems that nothing can make a change.”

(image courtesy of Carys Bryan) What is the right way to go about protesting against the capitalist system? This is the debate which has been at a deadlock in my mind since I returned from the Protests against the government Cuts on March 26th in London. The massive cuts to state welfare were the issueContinue reading “The outer conflict reflects the inner conflict (thoughts and feelings after attending the march 26th anti-cuts demo)”

Why, I wondered, do I only notice Telescreens (the object itself, rather than what it is showing) when they are turned off? Looking up at the sleeping boxes as I enter the transport interchange, there was suddenly something more about their presence; they almost had a creepy presence as they hung above my head, andContinue reading “Sleeping Screens”

The idea of the survival of the best/the most competent has certainly been normalised in contemporary society – as opposed to the pre-Thatcher era when there was more (but not much more) emphasis on equality rather than the equality of opportunity which compresses our outlook now, which began to take hold under Thatcher here inContinue reading “On Competitiveness”

An image that will always stick with me is one which was on a video in an exhibition commemorating the holocaust, at the Imperial War Museum, London. In a well-meant diversion from the Jewish Holocaust, the video narrator spoke of all those other holocausts which have happened since then in the late 20th century, mainlyContinue reading “21st Century Schizoid Man”

I had to trawl through all the old household photo collection to find what I wanted; you know, photos from a time when they actually meant something, before images of everybody from every place at every time where splattered upon the social networking sites; you know, the times when it took a couple of weeksContinue reading

So, yet again I find myself in a personal battle to abstain from the technological dictation of communication. Caught in a dilemma, knowing full-well that abstaining from the social networking sites will sever many social contacts but also never ever forgetting the miserable state of mind I sink into whilst scrolling up and down myContinue reading “The Social Media Fat-Face application – a real cultural low point”