Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

‘Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved’. — Niccolò Machiavelli

The WEFfers’ Misreading of Machiavelli

SATURDAY

We ‘got’ the turf today, bringing it home in glorious sunshine that belied the darker urgency of the mission. I don’t have a bog of my own, but my friend Jack offered me half the harvest of his family plot if I gave him a few days footing and clamping, words that for me are synonyms for joy.  

On the bog ther…