The Duration of Plastic
Most weeks I spend at least half an hour collecting up plastic bottles, shredded food cartons, frayed rope, deflated balloons and other less distinguishable bits of plastic from a beach on Morecambe Bay, Lancashire. Generally it is the kind of stuff we’re meant to throw away (if not directly into the sea): stuff we don’t give a minute’s thought to.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
Poets and Borders
In response to Citizens of Everywhere, writer and project contributor Ilya Kaminsky has set up a new forum on the Poetry International website.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
Unfenced Borders To Die For
Whether it’s George Osborne in hi-viz or Theresa May in Barbour, power-hungry Conservatives wanting to influence voting patterns in new battlegrounds of post-industrial England have been keen to badge themselves Northern.\n
Posted on: 28 March 2017
L. Susan Stebbing 1885-1943
Political events of the past year indicate a pressing need to understand the ways in which language can be used to influence and to manipulate, particularly in relation to an electorate choosing how to cast its vote.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
We are all citizens of the world
Scientists seek to discover and describe knowledge, while engineers seek to apply and deploy the same knowledge by creating technology that supports our global society. In their quests, both scientists and engineers are dependent on each other and on those that have gone before them.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
Am I Not A Citizen?
The following talks to and mirrors Theresa May's infamous ´Citizens of Nowhere´ speech delivered on 5 October 2016. I wrote it a few days before Article 50 was triggered.\n
Posted on: 28 March 2017
My passport is maroon
Speaking to me recently about Brexit, a German living in Luxembourg mentioned that the scariest border experience he had ever had in his life was crossing between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the 1970s.
Posted on: 28 March 2017
Too Much Democracy
In the wake of the referendum, a depressing quantity of the political conversation in the UK has been given over to the question of whether it’s legitimate to refer to certain sections of the voting public as stupid.
Posted on: 28 February 2017
‘In that the world’s contracted thus’
All is in each of us, and we all deserve this acknowledgement, but as the sun shines across the planet it takes us collectively as well as individually. And human-induced climate changes alter the conditions under which the earth receives the sun’s bounty, shifting the range of sustainability through which life was nurtured.
Posted on: 21 February 2017
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The Duration of Plastic
Most weeks I spend at least half an hour collecting up plastic bottles, shredded food cartons, frayed rope, deflated balloons and other less distinguishable bits of plastic from a beach on Morecambe Bay, Lancashire. Generally it is the kind of stuff we’re meant to throw away (if not directly into the sea): stuff we don’t give a minute’s thought to.
Posted on: 28 March 2017