Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Vermin

This just in from the official Leave.EU Twitter account: I guess that tells us all we need to know.

Would you rather be hit by a bus or a lorry?

In the unlikely event you’re struggling to remember… Guardian: What Vote Leave leaders really said about no-deal Brexit Brexit liar ‘Boris’ Johnson is clearly aiming for the no-deal Brexit we were told would never happen. And when, as is entirely possible, he fails to get his no-deal Brexit through parliament, he will not call a… Continue reading Would you rather be hit by a bus or a lorry?

Distinguishing the perilous adventure of selfhood

Terry Eagleton writing in the latest edition of The London Review of Books: Kierkegaard is careful to distinguish the perilous adventure of selfhood from whimsical self-fashioning, in which the self, intoxicated by endless possibility, reinvents itself experimentally from moment to moment, shucking off responsibility for the past and surrendering to the aesthetic allure of the… Continue reading Distinguishing the perilous adventure of selfhood

The morning after

Congratulations to ‘Boris’ Johnson on so quickly overtaking Theresa May as the UK’s worst Prime Minister since David Cameron.