I am still reeling from this

I am still reeling from this

I am still reeling from this In a conversation with our neighbour at the place we are staying, our neighbour said that perhaps forty thousand deaths in Palestine aren’t enough deaths.  Tony, my partner, wasn’t sure he heard this correctly, as it was a shocking...
A lie is a lie

A lie is a lie

A lie is a lie I would prefer not to use the word lie, says a campaign manager to Donald Trump in an interview I heard on the BBC World Service early this morning. In this statement are the seeds of evil. Evil that sets a stage for fascism. I defer to the remarkable...
The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest On my flight from Australia to Europe I watched the remarkable film, The Zone of Interest. As a person who centres everything around integrity, speaking with integrity, and standing for justice for all, I have also been fascinated by how evil...
The goal is Empire

The goal is Empire

The goal is Empire I have written many times about Little Atrocities. Hannah Arendt coined the term, the banality of evil. When evil becomes normalised.  Like Hannah, I have been fascinated by the journey to evil. It doesn’t happen in one fell swoop; evil happens one...