It'd been two years since I'd visited England. In the early years of me living in Germany, I'd been going there maybe twice a year. Once at Christmas and once in the summer. Christmas was always a given. With my folks living just a few stops from Heathrow on the Piccadilly line, that was easy… …
Continue reading Maybe I shouldn’t watch BBC Question Time quite so much…
Hate is a word I try not to use too much. It's a word that describes the worst of human emotions. It is an intense feeling. As the news of what happened last night in Manchester comes out, hate is not the first feeling that comes to me. Melancholy. I feel an intense sadness that …
Continue reading Othering, and the devastation of division and hatred
When I heard Theresa May announce the snap election, I actually cheered. Out loud. I thought, finally, we'd have a chance to get rid of the Tories; the ones who are throttling, dismantling, and destroying everything that I believed to be special about my country. Having seen the polls, it's obvious that not everyone agrees with …
Continue reading “Strong and Stable”? Screw that, we just need “Honest and Thoughtful”…
The foundation of liberal democracies is that we are permitted to think freely. It is something that we who live in these, although not technically secular societies (as we have state churches like the Church of England, and in Germany Sunday — the “Sabbath" — is still a legally enforced day off), in practice we …
Continue reading On the matter of freedom, liberty, and equality
