Self-governance articles
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The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence
Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so acutely and concretely a paradox that haunts our human lives in myriad guises — the difficulty of discerning comfort from entrapment, freedom from peril. It is a paradox rooted in the early development of the psyche and most poignantly manifested in our intimate relationships as we confront over and over the boundary between where we end and the other begins, the challenge of balancing intimacy...
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Are you sure Angela? Rayner under fire for claiming government has overseen 'more strikes than at any time before' when official stats show there were more days lost to industrial action under a previous Labour government (and Margaret Thatcher!)
Labour's under-pressure deputy leader made the remark as she kicked off Deputy Prime Ministers Questions in the Commons this afternoon.
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Very Bad Government
From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.”