Of all the forms the next crisis could have taken- global war in the Middle East or the Baltic, far right takeover, unsustainable debt, climate
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Shimaguni Part 2: Prawn Cocktail and the Death of the Union
It seems facile to say that geography is a major determinant of history. Of course it is. Indian trade patterns were pinned to the monsoon
Shimaguni Part 1: Island Mindset
Japanese has a word: shimaguni. It means ‘island nation‘. Unremarkable, you might think. Yet bottled in four syllables is a distillation of a supposed national
A Pilgrim’s Lack of Progress
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the idea of pilgrimage, as a journey which is undertaken not simply in pursuit of a destination, but in search
Mea Culpa.
At present, I work nights, in an attempt to recoup my financial losses quickly. Stacking shelves doesn’t absorb much mental power, so at night I
Good Morning, Verulamium (Here and There)
It was a slow burner, that realization of change. A friend of a friend told me that it took her five months to readjust to
The Worlds Outside 