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Category: LIP Preview
Published October 2002
Why Iraq? Why Now?
The rush to war against Iraq is irresistible. Since the US first propounded the idea a few months ago – when it seemed a preposterous idea, it has gained increasing substance and accelerated momentum.
Our Man In Vietnam
Two months ago I arrived in Vietnam, one of the four last strongholds of communism
America’s PATRIOTic renaissance
‘If there is another attack, and they come from the same ethnic group that attacked the World Trade Center, you can forget about Civil Rights.’
Teaching TEFL
Four weeks after graduating with an arts degree, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, I found myself righting the logos on pencils in the conference room of a hotel where I’d been employed as a night porter. Still heavily in debt and clueless as to my future career plans, I decided to escape the labotomizing effects of sleep deprivation and pencil straightening by signing up for a TEFL course.
War on asylum
As George Bush and Tony Blair look determined to take their ‘War On Terror’ to Iraq, Jacob Mukherjee reflects on the mixed messages on war and asylum coming from the British government.
Where are the innovators?
Music is lame. It is so boring.
One Day Diary
The radio gets turned on; the TV channel changed to the news – images of chaos, shock, desperation, ambulances, soldiers, blood…
Multicultural?
Is it not doublethink to blindly respect all faiths and religions, when we know that the great majority of them (including, probably, our own) must be completely wrong?
Documenta XI and The Global Culture
If religion, culture and history have been reduced to ‘nothing’, then how does the individual construct and affirm an understanding of their own identity?