Nae Hauf-Way Hoose

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur / Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken / To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt / That damns the vast majority o' men.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

The Base and the Host

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Recent news from Okinawa is good for all those concerned with seeing US military bases out of Asia, although, naturally, it would be foolis...

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

You want me to count to three like they do in the movies?

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Carl Freedman is, for my money, one of the best Marxist critics of SF writing today. Imagine my discomfort, then, reading his chapter on “M...

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Monday, 25 January 2010

It’s coming yet for a’ that

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Dante and Robert Burns ranked among his favourite poets and he would listen with great pleasure to his daughters reciting or singing the Sco...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Exodus to North Korea

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"[The Japanese government] wishes to get rid of as many Koreans as possible and is not inclined to favour these comings and goings ...

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Historical Manga

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Do read Michele Mason's excellent essay on Kono Fumiyo's Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and Nishioka Yuka's ...

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Friday, 15 January 2010

Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace Tokyo

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I went last weekend to WAM, the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace , in Nishiwaseda. It chronicles the experience of the so-called “comf...

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Another Loss

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Daniel Bensaïd - inspired intellectual, outstanding miliant, enthusiastic anti-capitalist, long-term cadre of the LCR and one of the founde...

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