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Julia Ebner is an academic who infiltrates far-right and Islamist groups, both online and in person (right down to donning a blonde wig to make herself look more Aryan in one instance), though latterly she has been focusing more on the far-right. Am about half way through this latest book of...

Not my favourite poem but definitely my all time favourite TV commercial.

Two books I have acquired but not yet read. Am going to have a crack at them both in a month or so. First of all, for my money, David Hume is the greatest of all irreligious Western thinkers. But panpsychism currently seems to be regarded as a serious competitor to both atheism and...

Finally, a god that is worthy of worship.

There's a lot of debate about which version is the best (maybe Jodorowsky's if it had been made) but this older one is still my favourite.

The scene with the dog in that is brilliant. Good film overall too.

As orchestrators or perpetrators of previous atrocities (at Qibya, Sabra & Shatila, and Qana), they most certainly are.

Thanks for that highly informative post. Am just coming to the end of Avi Shlaim’s magisterial history of the Palestine-Israel conflict. In spite of its 867 page length, it is very well-written and holds the reader’s interest throughout. Plus, as the cover states, it is ‘strikingly...

I am pleased that you started it. In my time here I haven’t noticed any threads for foodies. So maybe this could turn into something like that. At least in Norway you should be able to get hold of very fresh seafood for the Japanese and Italian recipes. Preparing fish/shellfish is the only...

Am no economist (and therefore happy to be corrected) but this sounds to me a bit like when a new CEO cuts overheads by reducing staff and paring things down to the bone. The company then looks profitable and shareholders are satisfied but a few years further down the road it hits the buffers...

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Darwin might have killed the God of classical theism. But there is an alternative. Couple of reviews of Philip Goff’s latest book...

Giant penis fish (eaten in Korea and Hokkaido, Japan). Cow vagina is something the Vietnamese go for.

And here was me thinking he was just a pundit. Apologies if someone has posted this before.

At the very last school I taught in before I retired, an after school event was scheduled at short notice: a Careers Evening for Year 10. As I was a form tutor for that year group, I got resentfully corralled into following them around from classroom to classroom while they were given...