Eric Priezkalns

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Your Mind Will Collapse: Chapter Four

Previously, we left the 'Feds', agents of the Internal Revenue Federation, outside Bill's safe house. How can Bill and Milton escape them? Milton continued...

The Patient Welcome

That wasn't all I meant to say. The words can get stuck. There's more, if you'll listen. I wanted to tell you: I want you, I need you. Those...

Your Mind Will Collapse: Chapter Three

In the last installment, Bill and Milton were caught in their safe house by the 'feds' - agents of the Internal Revenue Federation... IRF...

MPs Expenses and Fuel for Second Homes

Most of government is about numbers. Most decisions involve taking £X from Jack to give £Y to Jill and £Z to Jerry. ...

Warm Bodies Draw In

When the night folds I want you close at hand It doesn't matter who you are You don't need to know my name In the dark I want...

Your Mind Will Collapse: Chapter Two

In the previous episode, Bill only barely escaped death at the Vienna State Opera, leaping just before the simulation ended. He jumped to his...

I Hate Skyler White (with reason)

Until recently, I had never seen Breaking Bad. Now I have seen every episode. Thanks to the publicity surrounding its final episode, the internet,...

The Right To Say Stupid Things

Always leading the fight for freedom, the Guardian did some interesting work this week. Presumably Polly Toynbee felt a bit envious for how...

Your Mind Will Collapse: Chapter One

Click. Deh-ne-ne-neh duh-nu-nu-nuh dah-na-na-nah duh-nu-nu-nuh. The bassline jolted Bill into frantic dance abandon, like it always did; the song was Debaser, by the Pixies....

How Shopping Malls Are Like Short Skirts

I have no doubt that you will be appalled and upset by the massacre at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi. Whilst I...

‘Exceptional’ Americans Never Hear Their Own Words

If a stranger walked up to me in the street, with no knowledge of what I have done in my life, stopped me, and...

Doubly Negative BBC Language Reveals Political Bias

What is the UK government's policy on the 'spare room subsidy', also known as the 'bedroom tax'? They have removed the subsidy. ...
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