To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to t…

The latest “Dude, eating insects is so hip and cool” article dropped this week, this time from The Guardian, and with a little twist thrown in. It’s pushing the idea of “ent…

How unnatural does it need to be before we humans realize this environment is not one in which a human animal will do well in, yet alone even survive? It seems that we should, by now, be very aware…

Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: o…

The World Health Organization has officially declared “Mpox” (formerly monkeypox) a global emergency…again. Speaking to the media less than an hour ago, WHO Director-General Tedro…

In the wake of the Southport attack and ensuing riots, we wrote that the agenda had become clear – it was about attacking free speech. Little did we suspect how quickly they would move, and h…

Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields with the majesty of trees and faraway mountains and …

Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields with the majesty of trees and faraway mountains and …

I swear it didn’t used to be like this. I don’t remember thinking everything I looked at wasn’t real, but instead some sort of grossly manufactured “perfection.” That’s how it is now, the world we …

Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind. The text reads Get Your and then On Bo…

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important la…

The Monkeypox outbreak version 2.0 is progressing along predictable lines, gliding smoothly from the “declare emergency” phase to the “vaccines for everybody” phase. The fir…

“A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthet…

Facebook make only about £34 a year from the average customer in the UK – a little under £3 a month (and that’s before costs) so clearly there is no head-room or motivation, for a human level…

Donald Trump is back on the app formerly known as Twitter. After almost four years in the “Truth Social” wilderness he sat down with Elon Musk for a 3-hour conversation. On our side of …

Now, I was looking at the cabbage. It was $7.29. It is true. The cabbage, a tiny little thing compared to the cabbages I remember flourishing in the fields (making it hard to walk up and down the r…

This is Part 2 of Paul’s “Fascism 2.0” series, part one can be read HERE. In this second article in a series of three, I’m going to set the developments we have seen regarding Soc…

Born free, as free as the wind blows. As free as the grass grows. Born free to follow your heart. Remember that song? Here you will find the full lyrics. Andy Williams sang it and made it famous. J…

Part 3 of Paul’s “Fascism 2.0” series, read parts 1 and 2 HERE and HERE Now in this third article in the series, I want to link this back to what we started out discussing. How ou…

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short…

“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s soon…” “Something’s Coming,” lyrics by S. Sondheim, music b…