the bones of the neuroskeleton

A non-binding vote on the Government's decision to scale back plans for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail … took place in the House of Commons on December 8.

And the fist of my bloody right hand coming down hard and well-deep into the pit of my stomach and howling as if death's mothering-birthing switch-blading force had sliced across my face, as i did come from up underneath the bed and stood in all of my nakedness before my mother's body-length mirror, locked away in the enframing reflection as my bloody hands clasped away at my loins and i crumbled upon the floor rising and falling raising and falling and rising and falling.

The gap between feather-assisted running and feather-assisted flying seemed evolutionarily unbridgeable. But now again the notion of ground-travel aerodynamics is being given some careful thought.