Nothing is ever one thing
Posted on | February 28, 2010 | No Comments
Because nothing is ever one thing. It is always something else.
It is this fundamental truth that permits Adam Thirlwell, in yesterday’s Guardian, to write, for example:
Torture can share a structure with a practical joke.
Thirlwell’s piece sketches his reactions to sitting in on the inquiry, taking place in London, into the death of Baha Mousa in custody in Basra in 2003. We live in a country, it seems, that cannot claim to uphold such basic human rights as the right not to be tortured.
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