Submitted by Paul Daley on
Primary and secondary schools are not the place for weapons manufacturers to be extending their reach
When you visit the southern hemisphere’s biggest aerospace weapons show you expect to see plenty of machines, worth billions of dollars, that kill lots of people and make companies obscenely wealthy.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Sure, with more than 70 metres of shelves in my home, my books have a housing crisis. But what if I miss them when they’re gone?
When moving house and cities some years ago there was a conspicuous absence in so many of the potential homes we inspected – bookshelves.
And where there are no bookshelves it usually means there are few books. It was as if, when styling homes for potential sale, the real estate agents had issued strict instructions: whatever you do, make sure there are no damn books about.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Seeing a road-rage exchange and reading Wake in Fright got me thinking how readily this word is used as a testosterone-charged pejorative