Category Archives: Free speech

Unfinished conclusions

By tom | Published: 26/07/2010

What is this obsession with finishing things? Does life really become more manageable with beginnings, middles and ends, or is ‘finished’ just a comfort zone? The point at which any act concludes is purely subjective. We are in a perpetual state of unfinished everything.

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Unfinished business

By tim | Published: 17/05/2010

Absorbing talk from Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, last Friday night at the LSE – part of an event that included Professor Richard Sennett and a waggish Sir Howard Davies. Their theme: ‘On Narrative and Ritual’. Rowan began by talking about how we use narrative to make sense of things, and quickly anchored narrative [...]

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Blake Morrison

By tom | Published: 01/05/2010

“When you spend all day working with words, sometimes you can articulate things that others are feeling in a way that a dry political approach cannot. That is the role of the creative writer, the poet, and the novelist. They can engage at the human level, touch people, move people and inspire people to take [...]

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26:50 — Free to write

By tim | Published: 14/04/2010

26:50 is a remarkable creative partnership between two organisations – the writers’ group 26 and International PEN – marking 50 years of the International PEN Writers in Prison committee. Fifty UK-based writers (all members of 26) were given 50 words to write about one of Pen’s emblematic cases – authors who have been persecuted for their words [...]

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