Waiting for Godot
By Max Musson: Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Irish playwright and poet Samuel Beckett and described as a ‘tragicomedy’ it incorporates both tragic and comic elements as the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon wait in vain for the arrival of a third character, Godot, who never comes. So, what has this got to do with us? It is a metaphor for a condition that I recognise in many nationalists at…
Mandela, a Role Model?
By Max Musson: Following last nights extended TV news coverage, the front pages of today’s newspapers prominently feature headline news articles announcing the death of Nelson Mandela and the beginning of several days of mourning that will see every current world leader and every extant ex-world leader gushing in fulsome praise of every aspect of the great man’s being. Nelson Mandela we will be endlessly reminded, was a man who through his unwavering determination, great…