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One thing I noticed in the thirteen-hour queue for the Queen’s corpse, for her lying-in-state, was how impatient people are. Thanks to...

I. For a start, his name was a nation: US Grant—Ulysses S. Grant. His name was imbued with much significance: it was originally chosen by...

I spent thirteen hours in the queue to see the Queen lying in the state—I arrived at the royal corpse at 02:45 AM. For company I had two...

The right has this slogan “Get woke, go broke” but it is completely wrong. The slogan is basically a call for a boycott, to socially shun...

An idea that is commonly put about as regards the ancient Greeks is that their moral system was based on the Latin maxim, “De gustibus...

I. Those Greeks, eh? Those notorious boy-lovers—ah, what can you do…What can you do? Quite a lot, as it turns out. There is a famous...

Victory in war depends on cohesion, coordination, and information—and it also depends on breaking down the same three factors in your...

Russia has one major advantage over the Ukraine: 25-30% of the Ukraine’s population is Russian—or regard themselves as such, anyway. In...

The left says that every year the world gets better, the right says every year it gets worse—how can they disagree so fundamentally? It...

The above video features Liz Truss as a student. I’m not going to give Truss a hard time for her stated views here, since what she says...

Russia has never won a war against a modern industrialised nation. She lost in the First World War—and her wars in Chechnya and...

The films Dances with Wolves and Legends of the Fall represent a definite early 1990s movement, perhaps a product from the New Age craze...

I. When the left says, “White people have no culture,” they are engaged in a conscious gaslight in order to provoke a reaction, to...

The above video is a microcosm for all politics—if you want to understand what politics is about, just watch this clip. This is the...

Judge Dredd is meant to be a satire for progressive liberals on quasi-fascism, on a state like 1970s Brazil where kids in street gangs...

A concept that has done more harm than good is the expression, coined by CG Jung, “the wounded healer”. The idea derived from a brief...

The video above summarises the position as regards Hitler and Christianity: as regards “Citizen Hitler”, you will hear every opinion...

I. “So then, after I finished up with my theta-wave biorhythmic feedback loops I tried a kale smoothie, just to chill out—and then I went...

Yesterday, I arrived at Canto 18 in Dante’s Paradiso. In this section luminescent star-spheres whirl around Dante: the spheres often take...

I dislike the common right-wing argument that the left is “incompetent”—perhaps this is because I fear I am incompetent, yet,...