On Ex-Muslims and on the lack of social media omnipotence
Over the course of the last few days, Facebook suppressed Ex-Muslim TV but has now allowed it back on air again. Which provides me with a perfect excuse to write some topical commentary on the subject...
View ArticleThoughts provoked by a Paul Graham piece about privilege
Paul Graham: There has been a lot of talk about privilege lately. Although the concept is overused, there is something to it, and in particular to the idea that privilege makes you blind — that you...
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Some more creature tweets
A scary tweet: The other thing I found out was that the female monarch butterfly has an array of chitinous teeth inside her ‘vagina’ … Chitinous? Excuse me while I google that. Here we go. A...
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Taxis-with-adverts photoed five years ago
For quite a while now, I have been curious as to when my habit of photoing taxis-with-adverts kicked in. I’m still not sure, but by August 2015 (August 15th 2015 to be exact) this habit had evidently...
View ArticleCovid-19 is all over bar the “Casedemic”!
I got to this ten minute video lecture by Ivor Cummins via a Facebook posting by David Ramsay Steele. Steele had earlier written a piece which I half noticed a few days ago, as a result of someone...
View ArticleFucking amazing rant by Scott Adams
Yes, this is fucking amazing: For about ten minutes I thought: this isn’t a “rant”. It’s a calmly but firmly made argument. But then, the argument having been made, it suddenly turns into the fucking...
View ArticleOne phone call
Alexander Larman writes, in The Critic, about the catalytic phone call, from a movie maker to a writer, that resulted in Goodfellas getting made, thirty years ago: Scorsese told Pileggi, “I’ve been...
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London from the air – in 2005 and in 2020
I’ve written here a few times about London City Island, and how a sort of mini-Manhattan of unspectacular but decent looking apartment tower blocks have been built on it. Well, here are a couple of...
View ArticleArchitecture for dogs
I get daily emails about “new london architecture”, and from Dezeen, the design website. From these emails alone, it is clear that the profession of architecture is in a bad way just now. Big new...
View ArticleTrump did this good thing, but …
Ronald Forbes, for The Conservative Woman: WHY is it that almost every conservative defence of Donald Trump begins by disowning him personally like a distasteful object held at arm’s length? Sure, they...
View ArticleThe rise of global political parties?
I see that Brazil’s President Bolsonoro has been having a go at what Joe Biden said in the US Presidential debate, about Brazil and its rain forests and what he, Joe Biden, was going to do about them....
View ArticleFrank J. Fleming on how to do fake news
Frank J. Fleming muses on his new job as a social media adviser to Amy Coney Barrett: This partisan divide is why it’s hard to trick all the people all the time with fake news. I dream of a day when...
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Ivor Cummins speaks to Niall Boylan
Yesterday. As an (I hope) intelligent layman, I am finding this radio interview to be at a very helpful level, so to speak, of scientific complexity. There’s plenty of science, but it is well...
View ArticleThe Babylon Bee joins Twitter and Facebook in seeking to suppress claims that...
Yes, my favourite insect has for many weeks been a bee, the Babylon Bee. But now, the Bee is telling me this: Since you did not click on that article, you were not horrified by all the alleged...
View ArticleI googled the Great Barrington Declaration and got there straight away
I am now following Nico Metten on Twitter, who has long been anti-Lockdown, well before I was. Not sure whether this is because he only just arrived on Twitter, or merely because I only just found him....
View ArticleBMNB SQotD: Richard Fernandez on the current visibility of elite indecency
Richard Fernandez on Twitter: What is often described as the decline in public decency may just be a rise in the exposure of elite indecency. Both this posting and my previous one allude to the...
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Is this duck the same weight as Amey Coney Barrett?
This duck has been in the news recently: The Babylon Bee did a piece just over a week ago about how Senator Hirono, also to be seen in the fake-photo above, brought a duck with her to the Congressional...
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Cat participates in DarkHorse podcast
I listened earlier in the week to this DarkHorse Podcast with Douglas Murray and Bret Weinstein, in which Murray describes what is going on in Portland, Oregon. And it’s not good. Worth a listen, if...
View ArticleI’m now watching the election coverage by Newsmax TV
It’s 3 am on Wednesday morning, and yes, I am up again. Truth is, I did sleep a bit, but my actual night’s sleep has been slipping forwards, and it hasn’t actually begun yet. Originally I was tracking...
View ArticleReflections on how an abundance of news every day has transformed American...
This abundance, brought into being by the internet, means that you don’t have to read or listen to anything you don’t want to read or listen to. Whatever view you have of the world and what is...
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