BY SEAN WALSH Dostoevsky was right on the money when he wrote about how some people straight-up enjoy taking offence at the most trivial things: “A man who lies to himself is the first to take offence…he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thereby he reaches a point of great hostility” – The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky’s novel is an unsurpassed literary dissertation … Continue reading We Need to Become More Offensive
BY STEWART SLATER The Dark Knight is an unusually substantial popcorn movie, seen by those for whom nothing can ever be purely what it seems (i.e. everyone whose job title includes the word “critic”) as a meditation on the limits of state surveillance power in the post-9/11 world. Beneath its discussion of civil liberties, however, lie deeper questions about the world and human nature – … Continue reading Dogs Chasing Cars
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Jimmy Carter died on the 29th of December. A century old. The press fêted him, especially the left flank of the mainstream media. Now that the obligatory 72 hours have passed, it’s fair to speak plainly. Carter runs Biden close for the title of worst modern American president. I saw the actions of his ‘philanthropic’ arm firsthand in the Philippines—sinister, appalling. But … Continue reading The Weight of Time
BY STEWART SLATER The below is part of a series considering how society has come to adopt, and in some cases, celebrate the Seven Deadly Sins. Here below I list 4 sins with the other 3 of the 7 to follow next week. The Angry Society There is a paradox about anger – experiencing it is a sign of impotence, expressing it is a sign … Continue reading 7 Deadly Sins – Anger Through Lust
BY MAX TITMUSS Of course, people believe ‘conspiracy theories’ – why wouldn’t they? The rug has been pulled out from under our feet. We can, no longer, agree on anything at all. Ask anyone about anything at all and you’ll be confronted with wildly different answers. That terrible attack in Moscow – ask an anti-Putin Russian and they’ll claim it was Vladimir himself who gave … Continue reading Not Every Conspiracy is a Theory
BY DANIEL JUPP Conservatives and traditionalists know that a worm of madness has burrowed its way into the heart of the western world. When our most highly educated children are chasing after Jews in the halls of academia, it is tempting to consider them all just plain mad, but it is more important to recognise that their hearts, as well as their minds, have been … Continue reading The Worm of Madness
BY JOHN NASH A cat tortures a mouse for half an hour until death stills a tiny heart, then it walks away unconcerned, leaving the sorry little corpse. A sparrow hawk, spectacular, fierce-eyed gunship of the bird world, swoops upon a tiny bird and plucks it alive while it struggles, skewered in agony upon the hawk’s scimitar talons. These are daily events, but neither cruel nor … Continue reading The Folly of Animal Rights
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Watching the Labour conference is as miserable as it gets. I have found that the only passable way to follow it is accompanied by a select scrumpy, which is not available on the market but which a few Somerset farmers give to trusted mates – after a few glugs of it your words are not what you mean them to be and … Continue reading The Not New Economics Foundation
