There’s a poem, The Solution, by Bertolt Brecht that goes something like this: After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not […]
The centre cannot hold (or why public purpose is a social muscle)
What is going on? Donald Trump is going to win the Republican nomination and might become the next President of the United States. Bernie Sanders, a septuagenarian senator from nowhere is testing Hillary Clinton to the limit, and perhaps beyond and, in the process, garnering small armies of support from young and old. In the […]
