Author: KB
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Insurance as Commons, Campaigns as Mutiny: Reflections on #NicsFight
It’s been a very very busy 10 days since the NicsFight campaign kicked off. For those of you who don’t know, my very good friend Nic died in October from cancer; his insurance company (Friends Life) have been refusing to pay out on a critical illness policy which would transform the lives of the widow…
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Just Mothers or Harlots? | Where Have the Women Gone? (And other ridiculous questions)
One of the things I try to do on this site is draw together different strands of things that I come across. One strand… interesting… 2 or 3 covering the same issue in different ways… suggests there’s something deeper to look at. Towards the end of last week, Tony Jones posted what might have been…
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The House Guest | Moving on, in time, from grief
Grief is a strange acquaintance, someone all of us will meet some time, and need to spend time with. It’s a relationship often held in private, but I’ve wanted to talk here a little about it in public, if just to let some air in and perhaps resource others, especially when the time comes to gently…
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The Master – A Beautiful Pack of Lies – Which Way Will The Wrecking Ball Swing?
Spoiler alert: there’s really not a great deal of fundamental narrative action in this film. No twists to reveal. But if you’d rather not know too much about the film before you see it, don’t read on. // I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film The Master on Friday night. Here’s the thing: I sent…
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Happy Birthday Nic – a poem of thanks
Happy Birthday Nic – this bright morning, mourning that we cannot offer you presents for your presence is the one thing we would give anything for. You are absent, yet here is our present: our future each year from now, to take the past and shake from its laden branches all the gifts you once…