Arts
Free Speech
Photo by Newtown Graffiti on Flickr Fundamental to free speech is the right to criticise. It may seem a small thing but it is vitally important. Try living without it. To be able to say, [more…]
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism
This Septic Eye, Ch 8
Let me just say something about the N word, yes that troublesome six letter word, that’s right, normal. I know that quite a few of you rarely even step outside of your homes in these [more…]
Authoritarianism
How I learned to despise the left and fear the bomb
It was during an English lesson during the late 1970s – English lessons were never about spelling, grammar, creative writing, etymology, poetry or literature, always, always politics – when a short term supply teacher told [more…]
Authoritarianism
The threat fae Russha
Ah mind tha otha day there we aw’ thott the stashun wiz gettin’ attocked wi’ wan o’ they deadly nerff ayjunts fae Rusha. It wis aboot hoff eight in the mornen an’ the Sarge decidet [more…]
Arts
When Martin Didn’t Meet Tommy – Speakers’ Corner
I started this piece last Sunday night, after the event, and was intending to finish it up and send it to Swiss Bob early in the week. But we all know what happened next. On [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Count Dankula Trial
Ah’ve bin stuck oot in f**kin’ Airdrie aw days cos that Toammy Roabertson c**t’s hingin’ aboot the court an’ the chief coanstabul is pure sh*tin’ hissel’ that he might stert committin’ fer right hate crimes. [more…]
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Germans research ways to chemically control recalcitrant natives
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
Lobsters Are Red, My Love
Jordan Peterson, Cathy Newman, it’s all been said hasn’t it? Well, apparently not, at 4.55am this morning a man crashed through my balcony window, he was dressed all in black, he wore a balaclava and [more…]