Viv JM

“You must work for a living,’ proclaim the nobility (from the chaise longue).”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“The spectre of alternative truth – highly organised, large-scale lies – that haunts the establishment today was heralded by the normalisation of shamelessness.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Central to paternalism is the notion of the status quo: that its form of government is the only viable option. Through history, the concept of the feminine has been linked by the patriarchy to sedition, protest, any form of questioning this status quo.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“only a year after the outbreak of plague Edward III enacted the Ordinance of Labourers, which sought to cap wage increases and curb this new-found mobility. With its extra stipulation that any beggar who was deemed able to work should be refused charity, it is also the first time in English law that we see the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, a pathological obsession of the English that lasts to this day.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us