But our history in France is about lots of different histories coming together, and when I see a magazine cover with some shitty politician, some white guy proclaiming, "My France – Without Islam", that really depresses me.
"One thing that really depresses me still about life in Britain today is that if you want to work in the media, broadcasting, music, it is still far too much the case that you have either got to know somebody who works in those industries, or your mum and dad have to so they can secure a nice little placement for you.
Hold your arms out to the side and think of something that really depresses you.
Novelist Bruce Benderson, in an essay on that era, wrote, "It wasn't so much the assault on eroticism in New York as the new prohibition against interclass interaction that really depressed me".
Novelist Bruce Benderson, in an essay on Giuliani's "cleansing" of New York's Times Square, writes, "It wasn't so much the assault on eroticism in New York as the new prohibition against interclass interaction that really depressed me".
The thing that really depresses me about all this is that I don't actually dispute that, for the millions of people who live at the top of this island, breaking away and forming their own political structure really could benefit them.
That really depressed me.
"So it turned from this incredibly nice thing into something that was really depressing.
And that's really depressing.
NISREEN EL-SAADOUN Via email Thanks, that's really depressing.
It makes me sad that, yeah, it's really depressing sometimes, I mean I normally wouldn't be, and so I think I would just be in a more peaceful place.
