by nabidana | Mar 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Burgess wrote in introduction to the 1986 edition of his gruesome masterpiece, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is “a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and...
by nabidana | Apr 18, 2008 | politics
It’s a very sad day for the UK Parliament, as we hear veteran Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody has died. Dunwoody, who passed away yesterday, was perhaps the greatest current Parliamentarian; as Chair of the Transport Select Committee, she held Labour and...
by nabidana | Apr 9, 2008 | politics
I get no prizes for the frankly awful title of the blog post, but, as eny fule kno, the Olympic Games is not doing the trick of opening up China and setting the nation free from its history of dreadful human rights abuses. China responded to the challenge of openness...