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Sectarianism, like all othering, all tribalism, is an expression of the ‘collective narcissism’ that found such devastating expression in Nazi Germany.
― Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
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Sectarianism, like all othering, all tribalism, is an expression of the ‘collective narcissism’ that found such devastating expression in Nazi Germany.
― Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
Stacking the Shelves with a brand new Book Haul (16 May 20)!
Stacking the Shelves with a brand new Book Haul (16 May 20)!
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality, which is all about sharing the books that you’ve acquired in the past week!
You Can Trust Me by Emma Rowley
This book surprised me when it appeared on my Kindle, I’d completely forgotten that I’d pre-ordered it a while ago. It was a lovely surprise and I’m really looking forward to reading this thriller. This…
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Winding Up the Week #112
An end of week recap
Given the current situation with coronavirus (COVID-19), I find it uncanny this is issue 112 of WUTWbecause, as many of you will know, it is a common emergency telephone number in nearly all member states of the European Union as well as numerous other countries. Last week’s 111 is the NHS website (and phone line) we in the UK are asked to access for guidance about the virus.…
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None of them knew how to do a pan of chips, let alone put out a chip pan fire, which, as far as I was concerned, were the basic survival skills.
Deborah Orr on the Sloanes she met at St Andrew’s University, in her memoir Motherwell
Quote • THE PINTER TEST 'This week I passed a personal-development landmark, because after trying once a decade for 30 years, I finally stayed awake all the way through a Harold Pinter play.
Who's Austere Now?
“Austerity is the political process by which the most vulnerable suffer in order to protect the interests of the least vulnerable.”
— Deborah Orr, “A poor child of the 80s? Blame Margaret Thatcher,” The Guardian. 1 OCT 2016.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, along with Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman and others, is recognized as being instrumental in dismantling the socioeconomic…
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Four things I learnt from that "business leaders' letter"
Four things I learnt from that “business leaders’ letter”
Of course the election has moved on, but I just wanted to come back to last week’s “business leaders’ letter” to the Telegraph. That letter, which focussed on corporation tax, and the business response to Labour’s zero-hours proposals, tell us more about business than it does about politics. Here’s a quick guide to four things they tell us.
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“Working class” is no longer a term that can be qualified with the word “respectable” because it is now almost always a subtly loaded insult.
Deborah Orr, Your class still counts, whatever you call it, The Independent (2003)