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‘Inequality and poverty are about more than income – they are also about information.’ Sir Tim Berners Lee

We need elites (the Tory party) to be in power some of the time. Without a viable shot of being in power they'd over throw it. LRB

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True Love Sharon Olds In the middle of the night, when we get up after making love, we look at each other in complete friendship, we know so fully what the other has been doing. Bound to each other like mountaineers coming down from a mountain, bound with the tie of the delivery-room, we wander down the hall to the bathroom, I can hardly walk, I hobble through the granular shadowless air, I know where you are with my eyes closed, we are bound to each other with huge invisible threads, our sexes muted, exhausted, crushed, the whole body a sex—surely this is the most blessed time of my life, our children asleep in their beds, each fate like a vein of abiding mineral not discovered yet. I sit on the toilet in the night, you are somewhere in the room, I open the window and snow has fallen in a steep drift, against the pane, I look up, into it, a wall of cold crystals, silent and glistening, I quietly call to you and you come and hold my hand and I say I cannot see beyond it. I cannot see beyond it.

True love by Sharon Olds #poem

Less than a hundred hours #poem Sarah Berkeley

Morning by Billy Collins, #poem #poetryplease

Mandalay by Kipling, Moulmein pagoda #poem

Stop and stand #poem William Henry Davis

Pete voles reflections on his approach to development - those that ring true circled.

Writing only works when you stop using it as a weapon… it is intransigent in its nature, and favours complexity, the possibility of being other, interested in the state of being - beyond and above anything else - human.

#interestingquote onwriting

It is an astonishing historical footnote (with little material significance to the current global economic structure) to note that around 1700, India had 25% of world GDP, while the (would-be) United States had a global GDP share of just 0.1% and the United Kingdom had only 2.9%. Three hundred years later the role has reversed, with the United States commanding 31.4% of global real income while India's share is a miniscule 1.5

Language has power. The language that we use in public political discourse and the way we talk about events and people in everyday life makes a difference in the way we think and act about them. Words have constitutive power; they make meaning. And when we make meaning, the world is changed as a consequence

Mehan 1997

#acadmeic

I don't know what I can save you from.

Kings of Convenience

#memories #lyrics

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The fastest way to kill something special, is to compare it to something else.

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The fastest way to kill something special, is to compare it to something else.

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This too shall pass

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