Keyword: memory

The Other Side of Silence

Picture: Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda courtesy Library of the Chilean National Congress/Wikimedia. Richard Pithouse - “If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.” - George Elliot, Middlemarch, 1874 The Economist recently celebrated Margaret Thatcher for her “willingness to stand up to tyranny”. For Barack Obama she was "one of the great champions of freedom and liberty". This is, plainly, what her old friend...