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…
Ukraine – The ‘Orange Revolution’ Turning White?
By Max Musson: Many people in Britain will have viewed events in Kiev over the last three months with a certain amount of confusion: we are after all a long way from Ukraine; government and politics operate rather differently there; and lines of communication between our two countries are such that most of us must rely on the mass media for news of what is actually taking place. The confusion stems from the fact that…