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Returning to my own vomit this morning – checking the 6th edn of The Lion’s Share in order to respond to a request for permission to quote passages from it in an exam paper – I was struck by how … Continue reading →

Here’s the blessed Naomi Klein on what she calls ‘End-Times Fascism’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtYSyb6fCxo. The connexion between MAGA and the religious notion of the ‘Rapture’ hadn’t occurred to me before. It makes sense; in particular of the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu, … Continue reading →

Well, here it comes, perhaps: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/03/jeremy-corbyn-hints-at-launch-of-new-party-as-leftwing-alternative-to-labour? The idea of a new and avowedly socialist party (in the UK) is obviously attractive to an old Leftie like me. I’d even welcome Jeremy Corbyn back, in a leading (if not necessarily the … Continue reading →

I heartily dislike the sort of music that ‘Bob Vylan’ produces: a combination of ‘punk, hip hop, grime, and hardcore’ according to Wikipedia; and I don’t approve of anyone wishing ‘death’ on anyone else. So I too am pretty appalled … Continue reading →

For some reason I receive Daily Telegraph headlines every morning on the internet. I don’t remember ever ordering them; perhaps a data mining company somewhere thought I was the sort of bloke to welcome them. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica. Incidentally: isn’t it … Continue reading →

It’s not difficult to see evidence of intelligent design in nature. Blue sky, fluffy clouds, warm sun, flowers, birdsong, bees going about their business, the wonderful and complex mechanics of evolution: I’m sitting outside in the garden just now, happily … Continue reading →

What gets my goat about many public Christians, and Christian churches and denominations, is how un-Christian they appear – to me. This may have something to do with the sort of Christian environment I was brought up in, by my … Continue reading →

Whenever Trump mentions one of America’s states, it’s always a ‘great’ State:  ‘Senator X from the great State of Minnesota’, for example. Why? Are Minnesotans flattered by this? What is it in particular that makes Minnesota great? Its northerliness? All … Continue reading →

On the question of the US’s recent ‘deep’ bombing of Iran, I’m torn between, firstly, my old 1960s CND views – nuclear weapons were one of the two main targets of my political activism then (the other was South African … Continue reading →

So far as I’m aware, The Russia Report has still not been published in full. It comprised the findings of an inquiry by a British Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee , set up in November 2017, into allegations of Russian … Continue reading →