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BELK: A Ballad of Reading in Gaol (full version of essay published in Scottish Review of Books)

Martin Belk 6 March, 2012 author - Martin Belk / ONE BLOGS: Martin Belk

A Ballad of Reading in Gaol (Full version of Scottish Review of Books Essay.) By Martin Belk A young woman hangs back after my writing seminar at the new City of Glasgow College with a question: “What’s it like, ya’ know, in there?” For a second, I’m thrown, forgetting that …

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – Culture Change And Intellectual Decline

John Calder 1 September, 2011 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

When the last world war ended in 1945, Europe was gutted, short of all the means of maintaining a normal existence, except that, pre-war, the lower classes had rarely shared normality as the middle-classes knew it. Suddenly there was an equality of diet, dull but not unhealthy, a shortage of …

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – THE TIMES WE LIVE IN

John Calder 7 July, 2011 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

Historians will have such a wealth of material to deal with then they come to writing up the first decades of the twenty-first century, that may well drown under it. Around the world there is deepening depression unbelievably incompetent government and administration of industry. This of, natural resources (all dwindling …

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – ‘The Worst of Times’ MONDAY MAN RETURNS!

John Calder 1 February, 2011 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

Dickens was referring to the depth of the French Revolution, but the words are very apposite to 2011, not only in Britain, but nearly everywhere. This will be a year of revolution in many places, to chaotic trouble in most other places and to decline, suffering and misery almost everywhere …

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – Man for Monday: IS DEMOCRACY A GOOD THING?

John Calder 8 September, 2009 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

Is democracy a good thing? According to Plato who was able to observe it in its early days in Athens, which first invented it, definitely not. It is too open to corruption, either by those who use it through demagogy or whipped-up prejudice or bribery to take advantage of the …

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ONE blogs – JOHN CALDER – Man for Monday: THE CAPITALIST CONSPIRACY

John Calder 31 August, 2009 author - John Calder / ONE BLOGS: John Calder, Man for Monday

Looking at the last two-hundred years or so, one can see how the growth of capitalism, starting in a small way with industries perceiving a need or possible opportunity to create one, where some new invention had come along, often taking the willingness of people to believe in the value …

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