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The English rock band Queen needs no introduction. Unless you are so averse to rock and pop music that you have completely blocked it from your life, you will have heard the group, and their most famous song, the operatic “Bohemian Rhapsody”. (more…)
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Men pretending to be women in order to gain sporting advantage is not a brand-new phenomenon. Perhaps the first of these cheats to gain a public profile was William Thomas, who changed his name to Lia (why do they always choose such crappy names?) when he decided it was easier to beat girls in the swimming-pool than fellows with testicles like his own. (more…)
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Socrates: Tell me, boy, do you know that a figure like this is a square?
Boy: I do.
— Plato, Meno (more…)
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This is London; and there are no fields. Only fields of operation and observation, only fields of electromagnetic attraction and repulsion, only fields of hatred and coercion.
-Martin Amis, London Fields
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To do anything to a high level, it has to be a total obsession.
-Conor McGregor
An obsession is when something will not leave your mind.
-Eric Clapton (more…)
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Robert Colls
George Orwell: English Rebel
Oxford University Press, 2013
Yet on the political and cultural left, the very name of Orwell is enough to evoke a shiver of revulsion.
Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters (more…)
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Toxicity Report
The semiotics of anti-white racism has already been around so long it has become pervasively familiar. Take the BBC’s coverage of Finland, as the skinny Scandinavian country was recently voted the world’s happiest country for the eighth year in succession. I’ve been to Finland, and that is one white country. (more…)
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Mark E Smith
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Marc E Smith
Viking, 2008
I hope this book turns out like Mein Kampf for the Hollyoaks generation.
–Mark E. Smith, Renegade
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I’ve written about a number of English bands for Counter-Currents: Joy Division, Killing Joke, Morrissey, Ultravox (the original, good Ultravox). (more…)
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If a week is a long time in politics, as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is supposed to have quipped to lobby journalists in 1964, then a month is an eternity. In mid-February, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party was riding high, topping electoral polls and threatening both main wings of the British uniparty, Labour and Conservative. (more…)
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John Langham Austin was an English philosopher of language, an Oxford Don, and (like Alan Turing) a Military Intelligence Officer, who worked on the D-Day landings. Born in 1911, Austin died relatively young, at the age of 48, and his three books were all published posthumously. (more…)
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In one county (Franklin), it is claimed 99 people out of 100 are making, or have some connection with, illicit liquor.
-Official Records, (US) National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1935
My brother Forrest once said that nothing could kill us, that we could never die.
-Jack Bondurant, Lawless
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There has never been a public debate about climate change. Only dogma.
-Ian Plimer, The Science and Politics of Climate Change
You and your idiot brother
Waiting in the wings.
Which one holds up the other?
Which one pulls the strings?
-The Auteurs, “Idiot Brother” (more…)
