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These clothes

…towards all these things. You have to make an effort. I’ll leave the waving and leaping around to others. Mine is a quiet, private, practical kind of faith. To pursue…

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Belittling faith

…not care what he does in private. He never claimed to be a prophet; he is merely one human among others, brilliant in his analysis, who dispenses good advice, whose…

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Unsilence

…interesting idea. Thus I suspended phase one of my master plan, to set the site to private for a month, while I egged myself on to strike delete. Speak good…

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Segregated communities

…met him, though, because he lived in a mansion behind a red brick wall, three metres tall. Indeed, with private security outside, few of his neighbours knew him either, nor…

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Boy Bands

…men grabbing hold of their hero’s coat tails. Groups of men forming constrictive circles around a man attempting to hold a private conversation, suffocating him. Selfies, autographs, copycat attar. Possession:…

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Copious footnotes

…really that is highly unlikely, since most of the people I know are private individuals as boring and insignificant as I, whose only claim to fame is warding off gossip…

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My first Ramadan

…no questions asked, no questions answered, I returned to London with a prayer. A prayer for guidance and a prayer for help. But a prayer in private, though I had…

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The fat prince

…penetrating insight. Or not. Personally speaking, I still have great difficulty believing that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were the work of private individuals, but I wouldn’t dare…

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Ode

…you stunting on your mountain bikes in front of old ladies so that they quake in their shoes. Those of you who park on private property and angrily argue with…

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If I should disappear

…To disappear back into private realms, just like the common man who toils hard for his family, unknown to the hundreds and thousands. If I should disappear, it will be…

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Amidst crowds

…social spaces. If I am to socialise, it will be with close friends, in private settings. Rarely will I be found in a crowd. Sometimes, I envy the socialites with…

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Why write?

…to my private realm alone. But if I were to ask myself why I write today, as I set out to first thing this morning, long before I steamed off…

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To run away

In my runaway imagination, in years to come I will build our own private hamam in the basement. Opposite a biomass furnace, I will tile the walls and install a…

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Seeking ease

…economic sense, of course: I was raised in the affluent suburbs, and went to private school and university. But difficult due to the psychosocial impacts of a condition that would…

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Recruitment crisis

…around long. Is this a global phenomenon, affecting all sectors, private and public? Is it really a failure of education: a generation leaving school without basic skills? Or could there…

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