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emordnilap: thanks for posting that video. Most of what he says resonates with my current feelings, and he expresses them with a lot more clarity. I'm not as clued-up as Eisenstein, so I find it pertinent that the most persuasive - and I believe true - part of the film is when he says that children ...

I know precisely what you mean. I'm from South Shields. It's like a dying dog that keeps following you round, but you know you could never put it down.

My entrenched stance as a writer is to observe 80% of the time, think about how to document or satirise what I see 10% of the time, and actually write about it the other 10% The plus side is that I don't believe a novel has been written yet which encapsulates the absurdities of this age. The downsid...

What can I say, I'm an eager cynic! Situation is thus: 24 years old, postgrad degree in English (I read and write a lot, fiction and non-fiction, something I believe strongly in), no responsibilities to speak of, living back with the folks, signing on for the past month (hating it), seeing no opport...

Thanks for the advice and kind words people. It's just difficult going into the job centre, knowing that everything it's geared up to do - indeed, everything that most of the major political parties aspire to - is to expand an economy which has been defunct for a number of years. I hear of positive ...

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and have only a basic understanding of peak oil, economics and climate change. I'm a recent university graduate, currently claiming Job Seekers, who is more than a little worried about what is happening in Greece (let alone within our own government). I wonder, what's t...