Category Archives: Arts and Law

In a short apercu ‘On Exactitude in Science’ Jorge Luis Borges imagined the possibility (and worthlessness) of a map to the scale of 1:1. Every single point of the territory would correspond to a point on the map. But a … Continue reading →

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Legs! Brightest in shorts, Winger! thou art; For there thy dribbling is the part, The White Hart Lane which love of thee cannot bind; And when the plane to South Africa consigned, To periphery, the … Continue reading →

The notion of progress as an incontrovertible good pervades the cultural fabric of England. Monotheistic religions such as Christianity assert that God is a transcendental being that is separate from the immanent universe; as humanity was created in his image, … Continue reading →

WCC asked two top footballing minds to select the most appropriate geometric representation of totaalvoetball (total football), which was most famously expressed by Dutch teams in the 1970s. World Cup mascot from 1990, Ciao and Allied Forces’ captain John Colby … Continue reading →

WCC has explored how history is swayed by contingent events. The question posed by a counterfactual historian is what if? Below is a recent newspaper article – obtained from a parallel universe where Robert Kovac only received a yellow card … Continue reading →

Forever yes The battling Heskey’s goal-scoring shoes To us have shone so pleasing, as when first The foot of our striker pointed out the path To which the defence flailing at his behest Falls on the wat’ry sod, whose grass-some … Continue reading →

Albert Camus wrote the philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus which explored the requirement for individuals to reconcile themselves to the absurdity and meaninglessness of the world. Camus elucidated his theme by considering the plight of Sisyphus, from Greek mythology, … Continue reading →

Ex nihilo nihil fit is a Latin pronouncement which translates to ‘from nothing, nothing comes’. It is the underpinning principle of the first law of thermodynamics, which states that matter or energy can be neither created nor destroyed. What exists … Continue reading →