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People can’t see how amazing I am. I’m not even joking, I mean listen to this: I take care of my baby girl, I manage Productive International and I keep the house running. Granted there are million others just like me and they are amazing too. But to most people, it just seems natural that we do this, so banal, and this is really unfair. Should we complain more, should we expect more appreciation? For sure! This is what I am doing right now, and I want you to tell me how hard I have it and how great I am for not letting the ground slip from beneath my feet. But you need more information to fully grasp the level of my amazingness. read more…

I am sitting in a Ministry of Culture seminar about film making and it has all the hallmarks of a rotten event: a huge queue at the registry desk (but nobody saying hello), nowhere for coats, coffee servers arguing among themselves, an electrical fault that the secretary of state loudly complains about, doors that squeak horribly every time someone comes in (and there was a constant flow of latecomers), a loud buzzing noise from the speakers and technical problems with the presentations.
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When I went to Edinburgh recently I expected to see high street shops selling off their stocks at huge discounts and “everything must go” signs.  But I was surprised to find that it looked like “business as usual” and I didn’t see any boarded up windows,  stray dogs,  rubbish blowing down the streets or any other signs that capitalism had failed.   My plan of getting a cheap jacket from a collapsing retail giant were foiled.

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