‘This house regrets the Obama years.’ Draft speech from my university years

A draft speech for a Cambridge Union debate a while back. Thank you Mr./Mme. Speaker. Perhaps the favourite book of my teenage years was Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, given to me as it happens by my own father. I, and I think I speak for many in this room, think hope is an … Continue reading ‘This house regrets the Obama years.’ Draft speech from my university years →

Stuff I don’t understand — yet

1. Why when I was enslaved to the opinions of others, I was praised and pampered; now I am free, I am called crazy and punished for my freedom with enslavement to the will of others. Philosopher Immanuel Kant, who paradoxically spoke of both the limits of human understanding, or reason, and the infinity of … Continue reading Stuff I don’t understand — yet →