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Takes about 20 minutes to read but this is hands down one of the best pieces of political writing (and non-fiction) that I have ever read. O'Hagan is also a superb prose stylist. When I clicked on the link, I wasn't confronted with a Paywall. So hopefully, it will also work for others...

Am currently reading (and very much enjoying) Tiffany Murray's hugely enjoyable memoir of her childhood at Rockfield recording studios in Monmouth, where her mum Joan was the live-in cordon bleu chef and cooked for Queen, Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Bowie, Showaddywaddy and Motorhead, amongst many...

Yaxley-Lennon and the scrofulous dregs that admire him exist in a state of co-dependency with their Islamist counterparts. They should get a room together.

Probably mentioned this on here before but in his magisterial history of the Palestine-Israel conflict, Avi Shlaim tells how Netanyahu was once secretly videotaped during his first term of office saying that the Palestinians should be repeatedly beaten up ‘until it is unbearable’. Plus, after...

In her autobiographical A Memoir: People and Places, Mary Warnock devotes a full chapter to our former Prime Minister, a personage that she encountered on several occasions. This will be a long post but Warnock's observations amount to a wonderful piece of character assassination. Philosophers...

For the last thirty years or so I have been keeping my telescope trained on different aspects of this phenomenon by occasionally looking at what academics/scientists have had to say about it. For example, arch-sceptic Susan Blackmore (author of a number of publications on consciousness) thinks...

Along with Asghar Farhadi, Hirokazu Kore-Eda is probably the world’s greatest living movie director. For all that, I still have to be in the right mood to watch ‘art house’ cinema these days. Finally managed that with his latest film, Monster. It’s not quite as good as Shoplifters (which won...

Very long sequence of replies looking into the background of Zia Yusuf but well worth the time it takes to read through them. I have yet to listen to a word he has spoken or read a word he has written (aside from the little I have encountered in the above) but I doubt that Yusuf should be...

Maybe you missed the sentence that began with this (I wasn't disagreeing with you): 'I also don't think Trump is a Nazi....' The Nazis were anti-democratic. Trump at least pays some kind of lip service to democracy (though his promotion of the baseless 'Big Lie' conspiracy theory following...

'Trump was the first presidential candidate to say that he would reject the vote tally if he did not win the election, the first in more than a hundred years to urge his followers to physically beat his opponent, the first to suggest (twice) that his opponent should be murdered, the first to...

Many of the replies to this recent tweet are similar:

From a 2021 copy of Viz Comic. Let's hope whoever refs the final on Sunday isn't a narcissistic proto-fascist.

From an old copy of Viz Comic:

‘I tell ya, the Dutch are weeping In four languages at least…’ Surely another example of MES pre-cog.

Another good tweet of his: