Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 27 May 2009
In The Sky With Diamonds
Everyone knows that human beings are not descended from Lucy, any more than from Ida. Why couldn’t David Attenborough, of whom I am a tremendous admirer, have said so? What stopped him? Why did he instead stop only just short of lying directly, thus allowing an entirely false impression to lodge in who knows how many minds?
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