Accepting one’s virtues is a difficult thing. Being that we’re able to question and contemplate our own existence yet still have to suffer the indignity of producing human s**t (hopefully at least three times a week), recognising our own flaws and failures is an easy thing...
Progress is a wicked concept. We’re constantly being told to strive for it, and the really insidious thing about it is that it’s presented to us as the least effortful option. It tends to be pitched after a conversation about comparative failure. You didn’t get the promotion....
Commitment is fun. The notion of committing to a thing or a person is undoubtedly exciting in one sense as it allows for the illusion that you have any kind of control over a senseless and chaotic universe. There may be no god taking score and...
Every human is fluid. That’s why we’re constantly attempting to define ourselves. Because we’re dealing with a brain soup of chemical impulse, dark sexual fantasies swirling around the back parts of our heads, acceptable sexual fantasies occupying the most of the rest of our heads...
Let's ease into functionality together. 10) Jane Fonda: What Can I Do? 10th September What: Join Jane Fonda for a live discussion of her most recent book. In What Can I Do?, Fonda weaves her deeply personal journey as an activist alongside conversations with and speeches by leading climate scientists...
It's going to be a wet one. 10) Ferran Palau: Live 9th September What: Ferran Palau’s songs play with everything: what’s there and what isn’t, pop and R&B, metaphysics and mundanity, sentences that are as tweetable as they are enigmatic. Shaping time with your hands, and asking questions. Experience him...
Temptation is something invariably variable. For instance, this morning we had the temptation to smoke a cigarette, which we did. But just now we had the temptation to use a confusing and ultimately sh***y turn of phrase, which we did. Temptation is never satisfied, it’s simply the...
Death is something that we all have to deal with until we don’t. Which is when we’re dead. As with most things, it’s the swirling vortex of implications and the psychological need to always act in favour of self-preservation that has us going into debt for...
Keep your chin up. Your neck's gotten fatter and angles help. 10) Viennese Night 1st September What: Clink your glasses to an evening of champagne-filled romance and melody featuring excerpts from Franz Lehár’s most popular titles such as The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles and Giuditta, as well as...
Morality is something by which people tend to define themselves. And like all the things by which people tend to define themselves like religion, proximity to gluten-based things and the amount of conviction they display in relation to watery black coffee being far superior to...