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The other day, I had to wait for a train at Stratford-upon-Avon and so I went to the library there (in an appropriate Tudor building,...

The more we try to be unselfish, the more selfish we are—and the less effective. Hence Putin has attempted to justify his war in the...

My dog started to act up yesterday; he bolted from me on a walk, and then he refused to stop howling all day (the return of the wolf...

Russian propaganda is bad—everyone knows this is so, really it’s an insult to your intelligence. Why is it so bad? The Russian government...

Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle discovered that there is an octopus with a detachable penis—the hectocotylus. The arms—octopuses have...

Putin will lose the war if nothing changes radically: you can tell the final outcome in wars relatively early on; and, indeed, it is a...

Never trust a quackademic or an atheist—and Anthony Flew was both (although, in a typical cliché, maybe he gave up the latter on his...

Previously, I detailed the arguments put forward in the book New Times (1989), a publication by the Eurocommunist Marxism Today magazine....

The Estonian Prime Minister has announced that her country will refuse to take any Russian deserters—they should stay at home and...

On American and British news reports it is common to omit or obscure a perpetrator’s identity, the reason for this being that if it were...

I initially thought I responded to EOW Kirkegaard, but in fact I’m after Academic Agent—the name doesn’t matter for the argument’s sake....

I. Filofaxes. Perrier. Benetton—ah, it must be the ’80s. It must the ’80s, it must be the new times. Time to think about an emancipatory...

I was in Starbucks again. I was in Stratford-upon-Avon and so there were many American college students about; in theory, I like...

I have a personal bugbear, referenced many times before, that postmodernism is actually right-wing and not—as most contemporary...

To recap: David P. Goldman thinks that nations like Iran that are about to die a demographic death will lash out in a last desperate act....

I was kissing Satan’s asshole—otherwise known as drinking a Starbucks coffee—when I started to think about the difference between Carlyle...

I. This book was written in order to inveigle the United States, the wider West, into a war with Iran. The way in which David P. Goldman...

Putin has finally announced a mobilisation, a partial mobilisation—and yet even the way he did it reveals that Russia is behind in this...

A long time ago I used to speak about “Weimar syndrome”, the tendency to relate every political event back to the Weimar Republic—as if...

Thomas Carlyle might have been known as “the Sage of Chelsea”, but he was born in Ecclefechan—a village with a name that sounds comically...