Ciara

“The world she lives in is not mine. Life is faster for her; time runs slower. Her eyes can follow the wingbeats of a bee as easily as ours follow the wingbeats of a bird. What is she seeing? I wonder, and my brain does flipflops trying to imagine it, because I can't.I have three different receptor-sensitivities in my eyes: red, green and blue. Hawks, like other birds have four. This hawk can see colours I cannot, right into the ultra-violet spectrum. She can see polarised light, too, watch thermals of warm air rise, roil, and spill into clouds, and trace, too, the magnetic lines of force that stretch across the earth. The light falling into her deep black pupils is registered with such frightening precision that she can see with fierce clarity things I can't possibly resolve from the generalised blur. The claws on the toes of the house martins overhead. The veins on the wings of the white butterfly hunting its wavering course over the mustards at the end of the garden. I'm standing there, my sorry human eyes overwhelmed by light and detail, while the hawk watches everything with the greedy intensity of a child filling in a colouring book, scribbling joyously, blocking in colour, making the pages its own.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“The Liberty of a Democracy is not safe if a people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of goverment by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.'......President Roosevelt”
― Kerry-Anne Mendoza, Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy

“In Sir Stephen Sedley's view, it 'fails the first test of any definition: it is indefinite' (Sedley, 2017)”
― Antony Lerman, Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief

“Sir Geoffrey Bindman wrote: 'Unfortunately, the definition and the examples are poorly drafted [and] misleading'. (Bindman 2018).”
― Antony Lerman, Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief