“Sorry To Bother You” Is About Socialism, Not Capitalism
There's something very wrong with this Guardian review of the new movie "Sorry To Bother You." Which is that it tells us all that...
Preventing School Shootings
I’ve read a wide variety of recommendations to prevent another school massacre in different places. I’m sure they all mean well, but most will...
Good Question In The Guardian – What About Those 100 Million Deaths?
An entirely reasonable and sensible question from Martin Kettle in The Guardian:
A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million?
Martin Kettle
Quite...
Gun Control And The Holocaust – OK, But Why Do Totalitarians Control Guns?
We might think that this is all confected - outrage at pointing out that German Jews were deliberately disarmed and the relationship between this...
Hare Coursing – Making It Illegal Doesn’t Stop It Just Like Drugs Or Tarts
A useful little lesson for bansturbationists everywhere. Just because you make something illegal doesn't mean that the thing will stop happening. Thus, whenever a...
King’s College Free Speech – The Problem With The Fascist Boot Boys
This is to use the word fascist in its wider and incorrect meaning, not just to mean followers of Il Duce. Fascists to mean...
The AA’s Pablum On Mobile Phone Driving Offences
The AA (what used to be the Automobile Association) has told us that penalties for mobile phone use while driving have led to less...
The Wing’s Perfect Defence Against Charges Of Sexist Discrimination
It's about time this sort of thing happened, women only clubs and organisations being called out over their innate sexism. If we're going to...
Prime Trolling – Arm The Homeless With Shotguns
The point of politics, in that ethereal state of perfection which does not actually exist, is to propose and then enact collective solutions to...
The Coincidence of Protest
There is a time for protest. And a place.
But not both.
Take grouse shooting.
Some people consider it a hobby. Some even a way of life....