Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Let's grow up

Michael Bywater is always worth reading, and this piece is brilliant at exposing the way people are increasingly infantilised in today's society.

Monday, October 23, 2006

The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations

New Statesman - The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations

This is fascinating, and demonstrates once more that we seem incapable of learning from history. By a melancholy coincidence, I was reading the excellent Philip Hensher novel The Mulberry Empire while the Afghan death toll was rising, and couldn't help noticing the parallels there too.