Ben Bramble makes a somewhat speculative suggestion that eating meat might cause us unconscious psychological suffering. What he doesn’t consider, though, is that it might be good that there is something troubling in consuming flesh. This isn’t Disneyland and living authentically, as an adult, requires us to embrace fully the bitter-sweet nature of many of our most profound pleasures.
Read
For as long as we can remember, the British have associated delicious food with depraved indulgence. Anything that tastes good has got to be bad for your body, soul or both. The marketing department of Magnum knew this when it called its 2002 limited edition range the Seven Deadly Sins. Nothing makes a product more enticing than its being naughty, or even better, wicked.
ReadMany have emphasised the importance of certain institutions, such as parliaments and courts of justice, but exactly how they should be built has generally been seen as a matter of irrelevant detail. As is often the case, theoreticians ignore what practitioners know to be important…
ReadThis piece for CNN has already generated so much criticism which completely misrepresents the article that I feel it necessary to point out to anyone interested in reading it that it should be clear that I do not support any cruelty to any animals and I do not defend the festival.
ReadWorking with our hands is supposed to keep us grounded in practical, straightforward, earthy reality. For Leader, working on our hands seems to have the exact opposite effect. That determination to leave common sense behind is the source of his book’s joys and frustrations, as inseparable here as they are in the psychoanalyst’s chair.
Read