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Wonderfully surreal cartoon in this month's Viz Comic by Davey Jones. Won't give too much away but a 'PC Brigade' also gets called into action.

Predictably, the usual suspects on Twitter (arseholes like Sophie Corcoran and Mahyar Tousi) have been approvingly suggesting that this is Marine Le Pen's moment. Twitter also just happens to be fucked up right now with lots of members saying that they can't access their accounts properly. This...

Another excellent tweet from Bertrand:

It’s a good question you are asking and it gets explained in the Hayden book I mentioned above. For example, Eritrea is run like ancient Sparta. When you enter your teenage years, you get automatically enlisted in the military in perpetuity. And if you speak out, you get disappeared (or...

Excellent post that lifts the lid on what is really going on. Lots of similar stories in this book, which is about refugees attempting to flee from countries like Eritrea (the North Korea of Africa), Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ethiopia and the Sudan. It’s mainly about the Libya to Italy route...

Article on why Rwanda is presently not a safe place for refugees, including ones originally from Rwanda itself who might be contemplating returning. It’s actually authored by a Rwandan too. Also worth bearing in mind that although the superb investigative journalist Sally Hayden describes...

Is there a point at which ‘poverty’ blurs into ‘fear of your life’? According to Sally Hayden, even fairly recently, life expectancy in Sierra Leone was just 51 for men and 52 for women, whereas Western European men live an extra 29 years on average and women 32. Hayden’s extraordinary book is...

Quite liking this from a band consisting of former members of The Fall: Album review here: https://louderthanwar.com/house-of-all-house-of-all-review-album-of-the-week-1/

Have decided to read two books on issues that are coming up time and again in the news. Just started the first one: As is often the case, the truths that reveal themselves when undertaking a deeper dive into emotive topics like this are counter-intuitive, in this instance why people attempt...

Although there undoubtedly isn't, have come admire Nick Cave's Red Hand Files, where he often responds to those who have been bereaved. A lot of Faith, Hope & Carnage, his recent book of interviews, includes reflections on the death of his son. It also includes a quite extraordinary poem that...

My older brother (who is a much more astute observer of the game than I am and watches about 10x more games than I do) is a former referee and a City fan. He reckons that the standard of refereeing is much poorer here. Last night seemed to demonstrate that.

It’s worth reading the longer version of that tweet. Saw him once dancing with his kids in the Music & Video Exchange in Notting Hill, then again when he did a talk followed by a signing after the publication of The Information. He is an excellent raconteur. Read a lot of his early novels and...

Got to fess up: I haven’t read Bray but I have read John Boswell’s book where he explores the relevant Biblical teachings in depth. Boswell was a gay Catholic and an extraordinary linguist. It may well be that he was motivated to come up with alternate readings of the passages that...

Taught Religious Studies for 26 years (though for me it was just an academic subject) and knowing a reasonable amount about scripture and Theology without being Christian, I regard Robinson as a complete and utter fucking ****. Just last week he was saying how much he would like to have Tommy...

The squad has been affected by some sort of bug according to the BBC.

I really enjoyed it. Mahershala Ali’s performance is mesmerising. While I am here, may as well mention that Mayor of Kingstown is very good. Just over half way through Season 2. Was less impressed by The Night Agent. It started promisingly and I made it through to the end but the plot was...