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Pay attention to something else
The narrator of Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence” is a parrot at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The bird watches as humans desperately seek life in other solar systems by using a huge listening device. Meanwhile, the bird wonders why, if humans are so desperate to communicate with other life forms, they don’t simply pay attention to those nonhuman creatures around them. “Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction, but I don’t blame them for it.
Literary Festival 2012: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
Wednesday 29 February 2012 | 34 minutes 13 seconds We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds. New media should facilitate We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds.
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an interview with Monica Feria-Tinta
When the barrister Monica Feria-Tinta was a child, she couldn’t speak to her grandmother. “I, who grew up in Lima, never learned Quechua, so I never properly spoke to her,” she writes in her new book, A Barrister for the Earth. “I admired her rebellious dismissal of a culture that had come to oppress the Andean world, that had come to oppress her.” Feria-Tinta, however, grew up fully assimilated into the oppressor’s culture.
What if we’re all living in a cult and we don’t even know it?
I wrote a piece published in this month’s Prospect magazine. It’s one of the best essays I’ve ever written, so I hope you’ll read it. On its face, the essay is about three of Andrea Dworkin’s books that have been re-issued as Penguin Modern Classics, but reading her work set my synapses on fire and I really did ‘see the light’ as they say.
The return of Andrea Dworkin
Near the end of her life, writer and feminist Andrea Dworkin was asked how she would like to be remembered. “In a museum, when male supremacy is dead.
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What is the reward for righteousness?
Most of us would like to think we’d be that whistleblower - calling time on abusive or corrupt practices - but from my own reporting experience, such people are rare. Practically that ought not to come as so much of a surprise.
In the land of dreamy dreams
Heather’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I had a dream I was shot again. At least the assassin wasn’t my mother this time or one of her proxies.
Party people unite
Heather’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. I moved to London in the late nineties. It was a glorious time to be in the city.
The birth of a novel
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Protesting and what it means for democracy
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States Haven't Stopped Spying on Their Citizens, Post-Snowden - They've Just Got Sneakier
It’s been 10 years since Edward Snowden holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room and exposed Britain and America’s mass surveillance operations to a group of journalists. His bombshell revelations revealed how the US and UK governments were spying on their citizens, intercepting, processing and storing their data, and sharing this information.
Opinion | London Fire Shows Why Britons Don’t Trust the System (Published 2017)
LONDON — Helicopters are not unusual in London, but the intense buzzing from the sky at 5 a.m. roused me early. From my balcony, I could see a huge plume of smoke billowing up from behind trees. It came from a blaze at Grenfell Tower, a 24-floor residential building, not far from where I live in West London. The authorities declared it a major incident as more than 200 firefighters battled the fire, with an unknown number of people trapped inside.
Literary Festival 2012: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
Recorded on 29 February 2012 at Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds. New media should facilitate We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds.
Transparency thwarts the abuse of power to enrich the powerful
But disclosure can increase the information asymmetry between ruler and ruled, writes Heather Brooke You have viewed your allowance of...
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You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom: Amazon.co.uk: Nick Cohen: 8601300037165: Books
This book is about freedom of speech. The simplistic notion of "freedom" in liberal capitalist countries is a notion that has (quite properly) been contested over the years but (while acknowledging such debates) Nick Cohen argues persuasively that there really is a crucially important issue at stake here - whatever your other views on social justice.
A fatal lack of accountability
By Heather Brooke - Share this article An excerpt from The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy, by Heather Brooke. Official spokespeople, by the very definition of their role, have absolutely no reason to be anonymous. Yet one of the more dubious practices of the British press is the way reporters collude with officials by granting them anonymity.
WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU
The pope is responsible for the Vatican‘s growing hostility towards Turkey joining the EU, previously secret cables sent from the US embassy to the Holy See in Rome claim. In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally neutral on the question.
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