Category Archives: Illustrations by Adam

Can you imagine an Olympic event you could realistically compete for a medal in?

Writing prevaricative five hundred word essays in response to random questions? And even then, on the only thing I’m well practiced in, it would very much depend on the judging criteria (I’d probably do better in a sprint than an … Continue reading

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Will there be anything left of our social democracy by the time this government loses an election? [apologies, this is an academic sounding question but still a good one]

I’m guessing you mean the welfare state? In which case, kind of. I mean, even if the Minority Conservative administration manage to push through all of its plans, we’ll be left with a shadow welfare state. Not run by the … Continue reading

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Quod erat demonstrandum or not?

I don’t think you can prove things with words. I’m not entirely sure you can prove things with anythings. For obvious reasons, I’m going to have trouble proving those statements. Apart from in as much as they are opinions, and … Continue reading

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Why not?

Fear. Mostly. Normally. Well. Obviously. Contextlessly, I’m projecting. There could be a million reasons. But when someone asks me ‘why?’, I often reply ‘why not?’. Fear tends to keep us from doing things. It’s the thing that holds back the … Continue reading

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Why does only a little of what you fancy do you good?

I feel a little sick typing this, purely because evolutionary arguments unsettle me, but I suspect the answer is that we evolved in a time of scarcity, and then stopped, by finding ways to invent plenties. This is a simplification. … Continue reading

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What would it be like to literally vent your spleen?

Messy? Red and white pulp bursting everywhere? Maybe not, but apparently it just pisses blood into the abdominal cavity when it bursts. Which is bad. You can die and stuff. You’re probably better off getting it removed completely than actually … Continue reading

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Would you like a cup of tea?

I think that’s a little bit cruel. I write this every day, pretty much first thing after I wake up (okay, so I drift around on the internet for a patch first, letting the question sink in with web ccomics … Continue reading

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Corpses are hard and stiff.

But the living are soft and tender. Ursula Le Guin unpacks Lao Tzu’s musings on the living power of softness over hardness with a beautiful thought I must repeat. It’s the conclusion I’d want to reach: In an age when … Continue reading

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Won’t you take me to Funkytown? And if you would, how would we get there?

I think the important thing is the out of sorts, quite satisfying but largely unrecognisable introduction. I would take you there. But I’d have to take you somewhere utterly different or at least stranger immediately afterwards. I don’t like to … Continue reading

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How do you see EU? How has it developed, what has it improved and what should be done differently in the future?

Big hulking lefty bureacracy. Which unfortunately is roughly how the right see it, and obviously they like that even less than I do. The EU is, by the nature of its goals and history, quite a complicated beast. Getting countries … Continue reading

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