Arts
Blotto or Blotter?
Since the Spring of 2020, we’ve all had to forego certain things that were dearer to us than others. I particularly miss live debates and political rallies. The last event I attended was the Brexit [more…]
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism
Dead babies don’t come cheap
As of some date in 2020, we have finally emerged from beneath our cloying and heavyweight safety blanket to embrace a horrific and unpalatable truth. Whatever freedom we thought we had as individuals has been [more…]
Authoritarianism
Panem Et Circenses: Part I
Steve walks wearily to his recently rented sofa from Amazon Global and noisily flops down on it with a heavy sigh. Amazon Global’s airborne package guarded by their fleet of lightly armed defence drones, dropped [more…]
Arts
A New Dark Age
I have been struggling for a reasonable historical analogy to illustrate where the western democracies are going today. As we have clearly entered a new dark age I do not intend to hypothesise when exactly [more…]
Authoritarianism
Lockdown Mark 2
What the bloody hell are the motives behind the second lockdown? Given that the official line seems to hold less and less water, it’s no surprise people are coming up with crazy sounding theories. Even [more…]
Authoritarianism
Zombie Nation
Britain is no longer great, it has not been for my entire life. I was born just days after the dawn of the Blair horror years in 1997, a year that marked the official end [more…]
America
Downfall (This time it’s serious) 2020
So…………….according to the corporate media, this is it for Roossian-backed Hitler. Game over. The walls are closing in. It’s the last days of the Trumpian Reich. Go get those whistles & flags ready, people! Yes, [more…]
Authoritarianism
Just give me the facts : The Cult of Covid, Part 1
One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the narrative of “Teh Cold War” or even “Teh War on Terror”, this is a [more…]
Authoritarianism
Brave New Normal
‘And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save [more…]