Arts
Archery from a newbie
I first encountered archery on a stag night I had arranged for my soon to be thrice married best mate. We had all arrived the previous night and had sunk the obligatory massive amounts of [more…]
Paul Wicker
Authoritarianism
How 1984 is 2018 ?
Written in 1948, George Orwell’s novel 1984 describes a dystopian world in which the state is omnipresent and all controlling. Orwell was a socialist, but penned the novel as a warning for the future, however, [more…]
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A Dystopian Present
Sharon made herself a cup of tea, and sat watching the morning breakfast talk show on the tv in the corner of her flat. She pondered whether to open the latest food packet she had [more…]
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Adults versus children
Imagine if children ran the world. There would be arguments about whose doll/action man/pokemon/imaginary friend was the best. And of course, as adults, we would see these trivial things as ridiculous. Kids are notoriously fickle, [more…]
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It’s a Brain thing – Left Brain vs Right Brain
In general, the left and right hemispheres of our brain process information in different ways. While we have a natural tendency towards one way of thinking, the two sides of our brain work together in [more…]
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The running dogs of capitalism
Hebden Bridge I was born and brought up on a rough council estate in a Yorkshire town in the late sixties. My parent’s had taken advantage of the opportunity of subsidised travel to Australia, after [more…]