Fucking tech bros; those billionaires who read a bit of sci-fi and think they’re building the future, when really, they’re just building bigger cages. It’s enough to make me fucking spit, for sure. Fucking megalomaniacs, the lot. You have your Musks and your Bezoses, don’t you? Raving about Iain M. Banks’ Culture series and how […]
Ungagged Book Reviews
Nicola’s Interesting Times by Val Waldron
The backdrop to all of it is laid out very starkly in the first paragraphs. The Nicola Sturgeon story is essentially drenched in personal, familial and societal struggles for hitherto denied opportunities, justice and equality. The Patriarchy will never reach out to feel the truth of this from a woman with a working-class background. Nicola […]
Book Review: Assad Or We Burn the Country: How one family’s lust for power destroyed Syria
By Sam Dagher (Little, Brown 2019) I don’t know much about Syria but after recent events in the news I wanted to inform myself about Bashar Al Assad and his regime. I have read a few books about ISIS and several books about Israel and Palestine but had not read a book about Syria. There […]