Nick Harkaway
Pen name of Nicholas Cornwell, British novelist; author of The Gone-Away World (2008), Angelmaker, Gnomon (2017) and Karla's Choice (2024), a George Smiley novel.
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Their wordsI think what it actually highlights is the incomplete reconciliation of a belief system in which the Pope is God's ambassador with modern democratic and geopolitical perceptions.
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Their wordsInsuring (in many cases, permitting) radical adaptation of old buildings to new climate is going to be a necessary struggle, starting now. The mindset which protects dodgy Victorian brickwork slapped over an older structure as vital architectural history must yield to livability.
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Their wordsit always annoys me when we change PM without an election. It feels like a swizz.
↗@nickharkaway.com on Blueskybsky.app 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIf we have representative government rather than direct democracy, it has to govern.
↗@nickharkaway.com on Blueskybsky.app 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsthe idea that we should, in a global climate of rising Fascism, panic about the illiberal left, just seems a bit like Indiana Jones in sitting a snake pit fretting about nettles.
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Their wordsBut it was a hope that tarnished, and he is partly responsible for where we are. He is emphatically the man for 1997, and that’s where he should stay.
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Their wordsIf you are doing a human authorship certification - and god knows, in practice, how you’ll make that work - then do it.
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Their wordsI’m increasingly sure we underestimate both how important interactions like that are and how toxic some layers of social life have become.
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Their wordsSeriously starting to think this whole AI bullshit cycle exists because a combination of (cross-)cultural factors have made a huge portion of the world so fucking lonely they will literally talk to a lolly stick and too ashamed to acknowledge their own pain.