The imperative to tell of horror means giving up the horror of horror. A false economy of mourning, a gift that returns only more horror for those most at risk. DANIEL MOSHENBERG In the last half-century, the so-called `strong passport’ so-called democracies have turned the application for asylum into a criminal justice procedure. The myth […]
Showdown at the Sausage Factory
““A schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his scholars, he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not alter the relation” As Karl Marx suggested in his […]
What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
ALICE SPENCER Part one: It’s a long way to the top I started working in a brothel called Top of The Town. I rang up the number listed in the directory, went in for an interview and I started the next day. I told management a fictional story about being a single mum, but gave […]