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The Howling at the Hustings in Hastings

9th December 2019 Katabasis 0

As some of you already know I attended the hustings for the Hastings and Rye constituency this week. I was not originally planning to write up a post on the matter. However, given the truly [more…]

Arts

Postcard from Bloodstock 2018

26th July 2019 Katabasis 0

I know, I know – in two months you’ll be seeing another piece from me. ‘Postcard from Bloodstock 2019’. What can I say, this is one of those posts I had been meaning to finish [more…]

Computing

Civil Contingencies: Preparing for Internet Shutdown and Censorship with Mesh Networks

8th April 2019 Katabasis 0

We have entered the most fraught political and social climate I have yet experienced in my lifetime. Having discussed this with several GPers in person it is clear we need to start seriously considering contingency [more…]

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What a Father Gives

20th December 2018 Katabasis 0

I first began editing the tribute I gave to my Father at his funeral for sharing here in August. Unfortunately that same month we lost yet another  member of the family – my Godfather. He [more…]

Politics

There Will Be No Water Cannons To Wash Away The Rivers Of Blood

22nd November 2018 Katabasis 0

It’s another week and yes yet another mutual masturbation circle of outrage on social media over complete trivia. I speak this time of the confected “shock” that the water cannons originally purchased by Boris in [more…]

Politics

The Perfidy of Western “Intelligence” Agencies: The A.Q. Khan Case

24th April 2018 Katabasis 0

Preface This article was first published in print nearly ten years ago now, (and under a different name) towards the end of 2008. At the time, Iraq and Afghanistan had clearly become quagmires and there [more…]

Authoritarianism

Germans research ways to chemically control recalcitrant natives

12th March 2018 Katabasis 0

I originally planned to entitle this ‘Through a Scanner, Dumbly’. Unfortunately the title, though mildly amusing, would distract from the deadly seriousness of the topic. I’m desperately hoping that this is another Sokal or “conceptual [more…]

Arts

Zuckerberg is coming to town

27th December 2017 Katabasis 2,285

(with apologies to John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie) You better watch out You better not cry You better not shitpost I’m telling you why Zuckerberg is coming to town Zuckerberg is coming to town [more…]

Ethics

Absolutism and Abortion

5th December 2017 Katabasis 2,507

The ongoing vilification of Jacob Rees-Mogg regarding his specific view on abortion is beyond the pale for any society that regards itself as civilised and rational. There is a reason that numerous philosophical dilemmas and [more…]

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