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Against the two-party system
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Demeaning crimes
An American broadcaster called Bill Maher has seen fit to mark the passing of Stan Lee with negative and mean-minded comments. ( Read more... ) -
Reverse racism
The ferocity of American racism is becoming more intense by the day. But it may surprise you where I see it happening and why. I say that it really scares me with what hatred "white men" are described in ordinary discourse, among people who regard themselves as opposing racism and prejudice; and how impossible it is becoming to discuss any social ( Read more... ) -
The despicable Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has hit bottom. I really think there is nothing more despicable and dishonourable that he could have done than his article on today's Telegraph. Knowing perfectly well that the Brexit he howls for is both impossible and largely not defined at all, he covers his own party leader with insults for not achieving it. He is appealing to the ( Read more... ) -
A Quora answer: why were there no fascist movements in Britain, France and America?
As I have been saying( Read more... ) -
Steve Ditko has passed away
My attitude to Steve Ditko and his work is complicated, and to publish about it now, in the hour of his death, might seem ungenerous and rude. But if there is one thing Ditko himself despised, it is sentimental half-truths; I don't think I would honour his memory by posting a wholly positive essay - which, given my view of his work, would involve ( Read more... ) -
When will this sorry bunch of twerps ever resign?
The sorry caricature of a government led - but only in the sense that the front fender leads a car - by Teresa May has hit yet another scandal, one that should by rights lead to its collapse. But we have little hope of that, because even the least self-respect, let alone respect for habits and laws, is so absent among this rabble, that they would ( Read more... ) -
A sketchy thought about the study of politics
A historian called Andreas Herberg-Rothe has written an interesting study of the famous Prussian military theorist, "Clausewitz's Puzzle: The political theory of war," part of whose thesis is that Clausewitz's celebrated study of war, though completed and published with great success, is in effect unfinished - Clausewitz wanted to rewrite, it, and ( Read more... )
