Words. I’ve saved few and spent many. Baiting minds with a frustrated tongue. Speaking from a pulpit of privilege. Self-absorbed, indulgent responsibility. Mattering to no one. Each word a pill, a placebo; Anything to stem the ceaseless flow; Of despair...
France has a Muslim problem. When President Obama walked onto a stage and decreed the Paris attacks, an attack on humanity, he wasn’t just being presidential. Perhaps he views the two countries as neighbouring houses in an Amish town whose austere peaceful lives...
“How could one hope that a council of war would demolish what a council of war had done?” – Émile Zola, from J’accuse! – his open letter to Felix Faure, the President of France, 1898. A lot of people might agree that the United Nations as a concept is a...
