Politics and its Discontents

In my previous post I discussed how media shape the narratives by which we interpret the world. I used as its example the near-hysteria surr...

  As a regular consumer of media, I find myself more and more looking for patterns. While there is likely no such thing as totally consisten...

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” ―  Franz Kaf...

One has to hand it to the Americans. They seem endlessly inventive when it comes to devising new ways to inflict mayhem. However, while the...

H/t Graeme MacKay  Yesterday's post highlighted the rush to judgement many people embraced when Ulmar Zameer was charged with murdering...

It is obviously just human nature to sometimes react with outrage and certitude when confronted with something that seems to beggar common s...

Quite predictably, the rich have reacted with great bitterness to the new budget, in particular the part requiring them to pay more tax on ...