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Smears, scandals, and splitters
Before commencing the main body of this article, I'd first like to defer to those virtuoso past masters of psychological insight and political analysis... Monty Python. Behold the moment in the legendary Life of Brian when our eponymous hero tries to join "the resistance". BRIAN: Are you the Judean People's Front? REG: Fuck off! BRIAN: What? REG: Judean People's […]
Why there are no Amish geniuses
As I quite often mention, I rather admire the Amish people. In fact, 'admire' might not be emphatic enough a term: 'starstruck' is closer to it, and the only time in my life I have ever really felt an emotion of the starry-strucky variety was in 2013, when I was studying in upstate New York, […]
Name game shame
Way back in the dim and distant past, in another era, a gentler and more innocent time (around 2021), I developed a little phrase, that has since gone on to be quite widely repeated: 'if you know their name, they're in the game'. I developed this phrase for a specific reason: that, at the time, […]
The Con-or-lie Cabaret, Act II: The Pig in Muck
I'm not being rude here, or making unkind jibes about anybody's festive overindulgences: that's really the name of the venue where three of our favourite con artists - two fake "convicts" and one common or garden conman - recently met for a jolly old knees-up. Beaming over their beers, we have three of the most […]
A peculiar practice indeed
I had a little chuckle to myself when I learned recently that one of my childhood friends had become a feminist Marxist academic. I wasn't chuckling at her expense (I've met a few feminist Marxists before and I've learned that's not a good idea), but because this was really such a predictable outcome given her […]
On a knife edge
A few people have enquired what I think of "the Uxbridge stabbing" - a high-profile, allegedly fatal stabbing incident, where (we are told) an Afghan immigrant brutally slayed an innocent dog-walker, whilst injuring two other people (this query was posed to me before the "Huntingdon train stabbings", which I shall also opine upon...). Without investigating […]
"Neurodiversity", needles, and 9am gin...
One of my earliest experiences of realising that the world, and people, didn't function quite as I'd been taught they did came - astonishingly enough - courtesy of school. Not via a lesson or teacher, of course, but rather, through one of my friends. I had a friend, we'll call her Catherine, who, at the […]
Bookworm or brainworm?
Inspired (and slightly alarmed) by my recent forays into rediscovering childhood literature, and the insidious programming that lurked within the seemingly innocent pages, I decided to take a further perambulation down memory lane, by rediscovering the tomes of my teenage years. Having gone through the requisite Judy Blume stage (and she probably deserves a deep […]
Will it EndWell? The Totally True Trial of Julia "Madeleine McCann" Wendell
We all love to be gripped by a good series, and so, whilst we wait for the next season of Stranger Things, something even stranger appears to be going on in Britain's courtrooms. Back on October 2nd - Yom Kippur, and the day of the "Manchester synagogue attack" - two courtroom dramas began, both of […]
Candace Owens: CO by name...
Ms. Owens is all over my screens today, dominating both mainstream and social media alike, for her theories about - over the former medium - Brigitte Macron, and - over the latter - Charlie Kirk. Owens asserts to believe that the former is a man, and the latter was assassinated by Israel. Thus perpetuating into […]
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