Though writings of romantic same-sex love stories, Urdu poetries and ghazals could be traced back in pre-independent India, writers of such novels or stories hardly ever confessed their sexual identity publicly.
However, I am a flawed, fallible scientist — my initial reaction on Twitter to his piece was angry and, I have to confess, hardly constructive — so although I failed the first time, I would like to give reasoned argument another go.
MI6 officers privately expressed concern about the length of Blake's sentence, saying it would hardly encourage other double agents to confess.
Indeed, as a historian of past wars, the harsh realities of psychological casualties, of forced prostitution, of rampant corruption should hardly surprise me -- but I confess that they still do.
MI6 was almost as stunned as Macmillan, for such a sentence would hardly encourage any future Soviet spy to confess.
But if you're pursuing appeals, you're hardly in a position to go out and confess your worst kinds of actions.
Otherwise, they're hardly worth reading about, which is why I confess only that I have nothing to share with you.
As for faith itself, we hardly give a prayer for the power of prayer – only 6% of people confess to being churchgoing (and the figures do not show how many of those attend to access a food bank…).
That said, I confess to rather liking Ocasio-Cortez, who seems sincere and well intentioned — qualities that are hardly a substitute for viable policy ideas, but at least a good place to start.
