Raise a flag
It’s easy to criticise, to say what you don’t like, to be an away-from person. To dig, and prod, and blow their house down. It’s catching too - you start puffing,...
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Results for the category: Skippiness
Cold and hard
Life mostly allows for a relatively friendly relationship with the actual facts.
Most of the time … they’re delicately spun. A polish there, an omission here, the greens are more verdant, the...
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Who benefits?
There are plenty of things that seem like a good idea. Everyone says they’re a good idea. All the books say they’re a good idea. Advisers advise they’re a good idea....
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Every project
Some projects burst out in a blaze of glory. Lights flash, music blares, crowds cheer as you hit the launch button and tell the whole world that today is the day.
Other...
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Enforced ineffectiveness
Everyone moans about the misery of air travel. Herded like cattle, the suspicion of security, the blank-eyed border checks, the endless hours, crowded terminals, bright lights. You develop the flyers-walk, going...
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