Do you remember that line in that famous song: ’They’re in love with money and I feel fined’? Well, the same mop top quartet had a number that said money can’t buy you love, and
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Slighty acerbic commentary on a discordance with the world.
Fifth Column – Customer or Citizen? – Issue 31
Is citizenship merely an ideal? Are our expectations too high in an age where we are more and more impressed by artificial intelligence? Is the historical and current dismal transition from citizen to customer just
Read moreFifth Column – Issue 30 – A Word In Your Shell-like
IT’S ONLY WORDS, AND WORDS ARE ALL WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE OUR HUMANITY, OUR INDIVIDUALISM…OR ARE THEY? DO WE EVEN NEED WORDS ANYMORE? WHAT WITH SYMBOLS, EMOTICONS, SHORT, PUNCHY, TIME-EFFICIENT SHORTHAND, DO WE NEED A
Read moreFifth Column – The Smoked Glass Society – Issue 25
ONCE upon a time, on this side of a metallic curtain, ‘party line’ meant more than one conversation simultaneously. However, now, in the 21st century, one of global, free-market economics, ‘party line’ has returned to
Read moreFifth Column – Tardy vs L8 – Issue 24
A debate that is evolving and diminishing simultaneously is the one about language, semantics and contextualisation of communication. A significant battlefield for the conquering of communication is usually no larger than six inches. Whilst miniaturisation
Read moreFifth Column (Beware of Whistlers) – Issue 23
We may be hamsters, we may be ants, we may even be budgerigars but something I know we’re not are songbirds. Particularly on mornings of any climatic description but more often spring and summer, when
Read moreFifth Column (I’m A Liar and a Cheat, Honestly) – Issue 22
Hear the modern virtue of ‘honesty’ when admitting you are a liar and criminal character. We are hearing more and more the mantra, “Sorry but it was a mistake,” that is in response to a
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DIFFICULT DECISIONS, MY CLASS! We have all too often heard the political cliche spouted by our Right Honourables about having to make difficult decisions, we are indeed made sick to the back benches hearing it.
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Progress? Material progress seems like an inevitability in us humans, yet we still admire the animal world for apparently getting it so right. As an organism, like other species on the planet, some force compels
Read moreFifth Column – Issue 19
Public Inconvenience On an unseasonably warm Sunday morning, I walked from one seaside town to another along the beach, enjoying the ease of not being on the conveyor belt of commerce. Having enjoyed the breakfast
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