Journal
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Surrounded
IN TERMS OF the event, the make or type of bikes surely doesn’t matter now, but it weirdly did...
Iris
I was told experience mattered. This is a lie, at least when it comes to light. I’ve drunk decades of it and...
A great experiment
IT’S EASY TO get lost in the disruption: our obsession with technology and how to regulate it; minimise our...
On being sane in insane places
I’VE BEEN THINKING about how my body inhabits place and how it changes – fluctuating between comfort and pain – depending...
Order, not chaos
IT WAS A muffled cheer. On 19 October 2017, it rose from behind a stiff oak door in New...
Best laid plans
THE KIDS IN Eleanor Hardy’s class are all still talking about the fight. They shouldn’t be – she heard the...
Expert judgment on markers
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves a powerful culture. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to...
Conversation
He held the light for me I saw the door there was no Spot – outside and inside. It was my first day In the new house. Dad,...
Where the voices aren’t
IN 2018, THE University of Oxford ran an essay competition that asked, ‘Are Men (Still) Beasts?’ Students were prompted...
The burning question
THE WESTFIELD KOTARA in Newcastle is a carbon copy of shopping centres around the world, with its jumble of...
Democracy and the corruption question
I’M RUNNING ON a beach near Cairns, spending a rare holiday moment trying to regain some of the fitness...
The things we’ll leave behind
THERE’S A LIGHT blearing hazy through the glass behind her brother’s head, the red-blue red-blue of a police car...
