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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I’d come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

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Andrew O'Hagan

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There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it’s a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent’s financial resources.

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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time – sometimes time out from their realist fixations – to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

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April 21, 2024

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time – sometimes time out from their realist fixations – to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

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April 21, 2024

There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it’s a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent’s financial resources.

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