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As I always watch matches on TV with the sound down, I assumed until recently when reading about him in this forum that ‘Matterface’ must be a nickname and that people called him this as some kind of insult. It never occurred to me that it could be a genuine surname.

Dark Star Would post the trailer from YouTube but it gives away too much of the plot. Should definitely appeal to fans of Red Dwarf. The movie also has the best alien I have ever seen in a film. And it must have cost about 50p to make it.

Another one of Pasulka's publications that I enjoyed:

Interesting book on UFO's and 'Non-human Intelligences'. Interview with Pasulka: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/dreher/ufos-and-aliens-are-probably-not-what-you-think-an-interview-with-diana-walsh-pasulka/

Jean-Pierre Melville's Un Flic (A Cop) is a great film with a crap scene involving a train (it looks like something out of Thunderbirds). But don't let that put you off.

May only be of marginal interest but thought this was worth posting. From page 3 of the book I have just started: 'Traditionalism is today's least-known major philosophy...[It] has been used to encourage respect for the environment, compose great music, and reduce hostility between followers...

Really? So how did you feel about Magna Carta? Seriously though, I get what you are saying, especially as I am now in my 7th decade. Someone who writes very engagingly about old age is the former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway. He would have made an excellent Archbishop of Canterbury...

Scroll down to 9th February 2018 to see the Brockley Ukulele Group perform ‘Theme From Sparta FC’. https://www.facebook.com/brockleyukegroup

‘The desire to be led by a strong personality in a crisis, the craving for our existence to have some kind of purpose, the quasi worship of heroes & celebrities, the longing for salvation and redemption: none of this has changed since the death of Hitler in 1945.’

According to Yale historian Timothy Snyder, last time around, in his first 298 days in office, the short-fingered vulgarian made 1,628 false or misleading claims (plus 24 more in an early interview that only lasted 30 minutes). Wonder if he'll beat that record in his second term? For the...

Spring was done for violent disorder, wasn't he? As it happens, I did answer his question on X.

The mother of one of the victims, Elizabeth McDonnell, would agree. Here is a remark by James Fergusson, author of Al-Britannia My Country: A Journey Through Muslim Britain who interviewed her: "McDonnell didn't think that Islam, as such, had anything to do with the creation of groomers. The...

‘I’m so sick of Snow Patrol, and where to to find Esso lubricant.’

In answer to your first question, I would say that he is certainly seeking to arouse malice against Muslims. And he has since been at it again. Leaving aside his usual false claims about Islam, you can’t surgically remove a belief system. That’s a physical action. But you can physically...

The position that you have robustly staked out in this and other posts in this thread is perfectly respectable and I do understand your concerns. So I am going to quote myself again here: 'In the case of free speech, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill drew the line at incitement. He...

Wouldn't normally quote myself. But there's a reason. My position is still that we simply don't know and we'll find out more at the trial.

You're probably right but - having read a raft of books on Salafi-jihadist and far-right terrorism over the last few years - these days I'm inclined to proceed with caution, as quite a bit of what I have encountered has been counterintuitive. If that places me in cloud cuckoo land, then so be...

Thanks for the clarification. The BBC described the document as 'a military study of an Al-Qaeda training manual.' I edited one of my tweets to take account of that. But then I found that Sky were calling it an Al-Qaeda manual. So I changed it back again.

In the case of free speech, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill drew the line at incitement. He famously contrasted a newspaper article in which the author claimed that corn dealers were starvers of the poor, with the same view spoken (or communicated via a placard) right outside a corn...