By way of highlighting that straightforward fact, I'll quote from a mother of four I met earlier this year, in Hartlepool, who was facing a cut of at least £16 – and as much as £28 – a week in her family's housing benefit: "We can't cut it from fuel, or electricity, or petrol.
That straightforward fact hit me like a thousand bricks of "duh".
But then I saw booted policemen standing on the porches, leaning on walls, like idle villains in Westerns, and the world of straightforward facts was restored.
His expression bespoke the chummy ruthlessness of someone whose life was organized around profit and survival; as far as he was concerned, I did not exist in the world of straightforward facts.
But there are some straightforward facts you cannot ignore.
It was written in straightforward, matter-of-fact language, with no discrimination of dances by social class.
Also letting himself go: Werner Herzog, who directs most of the proceedings in a straightforward, matter-of-fact, luridly entertaining, lowdown crime-film fashion (this is the Herzog film least likely to ever get tagged an "art film") but occasionally indulges in some flights of fancy.
This is a straightforward implication of the fact of situated knowing.
These are straightforward, almost inescapable, facts of 21st-century consumer life, but they got Indhira Rojas thinking.
His premise is straightforward: inequality is not unavoidable, a fact of life like the weather, but the product of conscious human behaviour.
