Simon Carr: Things can get quite exciting in Parliament, but you wouldn’t know it most of the time the one fatal symptom is the sense of futility that hangs around so many occasions in the Commons. And what is futility in politics? It is powerlessness. The sense that words will not work. That however strong…
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More futility in the news…
Hurriedly organised Sindh Games prove exercise in futility: By Anwar Zuberi KARACHI, Feb 16: As anticipated, the 11th Sindh Games which concluded at Sukkur on Friday turned out to be an exercise in futility. The biennial games were hurriedly announced without taking the country’s general elections into consideration and were preceded by turmoil in rural…
Olympic protests’ history of futility
by Tim Rutten From The Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2008: Olympic protests’ history of futility Poetry, as Auden famously instructed us, changes nothing — and neither, despite all the predicted turmoil in San Francisco today, do the Olympics. and Chinese conduct in Tibet and Sudan is reprehensible, so all this drama is cathartic in…