The mirror refracts The eyes’ limitations exposed, You can’t take in the whole image: Forced to focus on elements, Gaze distorted, Everything abstracted. Trying to piece the fragments together is futile. He sees the whole, it is difficult to comprehend how the segments can be beautiful. Revel in the alteration Reframe as a Picasso, call…
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Comment: Greer ‘belongs in our history’
It’s a difficult debate in the feminist movement: How do we see influential second wave feminist figures like Germaine Greer whose transphobic comments have no place in the feminism of today? I for one believe feminists like Greer belong in our history, and not in our present tense. Greer cannot be part of the intersectional…
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Judith Howe reports on Fine Gael’s new leader
The Irish liberal-conservative Fine Gael party has announced that the successor to outgoing Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who stepped down in May having served as party leader since 2002 and Premier since 2011, will be Leo Varadkar. Mr Varadkar has become a symbol for many of the changing faces of Ireland, in a shift away from…
Creative Writing
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We woke up with a line down our faces Split almost, but not quite evenly halfway We all held parts of the other side of the line; If we claimed that we didn’t we weren’t listening hard enough. But the line stayed stark, solid, Dividing us into before and after A Kingdom United in the…
Creative Writing
When the statues went up
When the statues went up people said it was Art, A reminder of humanity amongst the concrete corners. When the statues went up people said it was a blessing, Fame dropped onto our little corner of the world. When the statues went up people said it was hopeful, Looking out from the library into the…
Creative Writing
A New Year’s Haiku
A caterpillar The date, Does not ask for change It simply flies on
Arts
Another year, another advert
With the arrival of the much awaited Christmas advert season, along comes the familiar slew of criticism too. We all know that the Christmas adverts’ genius has a bottom line: profit. Yet, just because they are being created to sell a brand, is it right to suggest these adverts are not art? I’d argue no….
Creative Writing, Venue
A Bad Day in Short Sentences.
Wake up. Tell yourself that despite the clouds in your sky, it’s okay. You’re okay. Drag self out of bed. Wonder why self feels like a dead body. Work out what breakfast will be. Make a mental note to buy milk today. Tell yourself you’ll be okay. Will be. Make breakfast. Slowly. Eat breakfast. Try…
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Labour MPs split over Richmond by-election
Clive Lewis the MP for Norwich South has been part of a disregarded collective call for the Labour party to allow the Liberal Democrats to run uncontested against Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond by-election. However the party has ignored calls, including from Lewis, not to stand a candidate against Goldsmith. Goldsmith, a former mayoral candidate,…
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