Glenn Patterson is a Belfast-born novelist and essayist
Glenn Patterson is a Belfast-born novelist and essayist
Going for a walk...
Taking a different turn opens up a new world for a Belfast writer
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Watch Donald Trump’s father’s incredibly racist (and not real)1960s election campaign advert
UPDATE: It looks as if the films that led to this post are not, in fact, real, and are pieced together from stock footage. I apologise personally for being taken in, but am leaving post up as a memento that we can all get taken in by what we would like to be true. Read more at the Washington Post.
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“Build more houses” must be more than an empty slogan
The narrowness of the liberal viewpoint can often do the work for reactionaries. The answer to the housing shortages associated with migration is always "build more houses". Yet, not for one minute do they consider how this sounds to the people who live day to day with Britain's housing crisis.
“Build more houses” is an aspiration, not a policy.
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Last night I dreamt of Jeremy Corbyn again
Last night I dreamt I saw Jeremy Corbyn again.
It seemed to me as he stood outside our local Morrisons, at a trestle table, with a petition about the NHS, and a Palestine flag as a tablecloth for no immediately apparent reason, that he was at peace. The familiar beige Harrington hung from his frame, atop chocolate Farah slacks. His biro tucked safely in his shirt pocket.
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Do the Culture Clash
A new poem for Little Atoms’ Two Cultures series
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The power in our genes
Naomi Alderman and Adam Rutherford in conversation
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The lines of Zaha Hadid
The late architect's foray into virtual reality
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Lettuce: a warning from history
No war for leaves
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