"All men at God's round table sit, And all men must be fed; But this loaf in my hand, This loaf is my son's bread.
Melbourne, November 2005
When I got to the party last week, instructions were being imparted (in Strine) to the Viking archers on Beaconsfield Parade beach. This is a surfer-free walking
Since the 7 July attacks, London and the world have rung with slogans of depleted Britishness: steadfast grit, business as usual, we can take it (especially Londoners). Understandable in the
In the aftermath of the British general election of 5 May 2005, something quite unexpected is happening. Everyone knows that Tony Blairs New Labour Party won. But its
Inquiring at an Oxford bookshop about the latest tome from Harry G Frankfurt, Princetons emeritus professor of philosophy On Bullshit (Princeton University Press, 2005) I expected a delay, or
Progress itself is not something that unfolds in a single line. Along with the natural weakening an idea suffers as it becomes diffuse, there is also the crisscrossing of
I suspect that W.B. Yeats Spiritus Mundi must by now be disturbing all serious students of globalisation who read poetry. In The Second Coming (1921) he intuited a desert
The series
1. America: Enemy of globalisation In the first part of a major new series Tom Nairn lays out his surprising and important thesis. Globalisation is not Americanisation. Rather,
The series
1. America: Enemy of globalisation In the first part of a major new series Tom Nairn lays out his surprising and important thesis. Globalisation is not Americanisation. Rather,
The series
1. America: Enemy of globalisation In the first part of a major new series Tom Nairn lays out his surprising and important thesis. Globalisation is not Americanisation. Rather,
The series
1. America: Enemy of globalisation In the first part of a major new series Tom Nairn lays out his surprising and important thesis. Globalisation is not Americanisation. Rather,
The series
1. America: Enemy of globalisation In the first part of a major new series Tom Nairn lays out his surprising and important thesis. Globalisation is not Americanisation. Rather,
