- Feb 26, 2016
- 4 min
Shirley Collins: Hello Old England
Adieu to Old England, adieu and adieu to some hundreds of pounds if the world had been ended while I had been young my sorrow I'd never had known Maybe someone at this moment is looking discontentedly out the window, wishing on a cool bright winter's day they had, for all the world, a good forgotten folk record to listen to. In answer to this, and because I'm looking out the window in much the same way myself, maybe today is the day to think of the English Folk Revival of the
- Feb 15, 2016
- 8 min
Goodbye and Hello, Old Original
Whatever you think of the opinion, Justice ÂKennedy is now the Thurgood Marshall of gay rights. [Nods.]
I don’t know how, by your lights, that’s going to be regarded in 50 years.
I don’t know either. And, frankly, I don’t care. Maybe the world is spinning toward a wider acceptance of homosexual rights, and here’s Scalia, standing athwart it. At least standing athwart it as a constitutional entitlement. But I have never been custodian of my legacy. When I’m dead and gone, I’l
