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.

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

On Tyrants Only We'll Make War

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I was last in Seoul during the insufferable summer of 2008, attending All Together’s Marxism conference as the Candlelight Movement shook K...

Friday, 9 December 2011

Kimchi and Class Struggle

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The best kimchi in Tokyo is to be found very near the Republic of Korea’s embassy. I found this out the difficult way, one particularly hum...

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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Crisis in Korea

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When quizzed about what drew them to political activity, friends my age often bring up the sanctions against Iraq as an example of a world ...

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Friday, 18 November 2011

Drifting into a certain vein of thought

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I’ve always been hostile to what Seamus Heaney, following Wilde and “The Decay of Lying”, calls “the Japanese effect, the evocation of that ...

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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Occupied City

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The violence dealt out to the Occupy movement – from Oakland to Melbourne – indicates the worry it’s causing our rulers, and the productiv...

Thursday, 29 September 2011

Cruel, Usual

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i.m. Troy Davis: mourn , and organise Yoshimura Akira’s bestseller On Parole ends as its story begins, with grisly and intense violence, a ...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

原発いらない！

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Vicarious pleasures are still pleasurable. For hours last night I sat following twitter feeds coming out of Tokyo’s massive anti-nuclear dem...

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