Today, power-sharing collapsed in Northern Ireland. And nobody noticed. They’ll notice soon enough, though. The British prime minister, Theresa May, has made a solitary visit to her westernmost outpost in her half-year in the job. Even then, she didn’t give the impression that she had much of a grasp on affairs in those six counties. […]
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“FAKE NEWS” -propaganda churned by the Bernays school, owns your mind
‘Member WMDs? I remember. “Fake News” — it’s Propaganda, but not from Russia Fake news is everywhere now, so everybody must have an idea. I am developing on the fact that fake news isn’t just an honest crusade against hoaxes, but a deliberate and dangerous attempt at censorship. Things you hear like fake news, conspiracy theories, Corbyn unelectable, […]
NEOLIBERALISM’S TOTALITARIAN COMING OUT IN WINTER HEIST ON ALL OUR FREEDOMS
It’s from the frying pan into the fire for me, from the former Gulag, with this hi-tech neoliberal dictatorship. This fall has seen very depressive news on the topic of freedom and surveillance: Snoopers Charter and the Digital Economy Bill to control our internet lives in an indiscriminate totalitarian grasp; and censorship paved by fake […]
Mayhem in England
If you were to glance at the front pages today, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bit of a slow news day in England, dominated as they are by stories about the class action suit against VW and the shocking story that we might experience some snow this January. To glance at the […]
John McHarg Writing
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Hey Gringo! You’re in trouble now!
San Felipe, Baja California 1998. I didn’t want to go, this was a fairly common reaction when Gary suggested going anywhere. Through frequent bad judgement being anywhere with Gary was a bad idea and as was to prove more than accurate, this time was no different. “Let’s go down to San Felipe” This was Thursday, […]
Jesus – Guilty as Charged
Jesus Christ did not come to rescue Wall Street like President Obama. He did not come to save the American Chamber of Commerce. He did not come to free corporations, regardless of how many courts claim that they are, contrary to all rational thought, “persons”. And he would not have agreed with that money is […]
Tracks of my Years
This piece originally appeared on Neil’s blog A loaded gun wont set you free…” -Lyrics in the context of my growing up in Northern Ireland that had meaning beyond the meaning Ian Curtis perhaps intended. As a young man I was continually questioning all that was going on around me. Growing up in a mid-Ulster […]
Bits of Kids
This piece originally appeared on Neil’s blog We drank our tins of Satzenbrau shivering on the school roof looking across the streetlit mid-Ulster valley that was my hometown of Banbridge. Another Friday night without a care. Out of the six of us, I was the only one working. The others were all still in High […]
Bisexuality, from a bisexual
Bisexuality is not a point on a spectrum that has heterosexuality on one end and homosexuality at the other. It’s more like the flip-side of a coin with monosexuality on its reverse. Monosexuality includes both of those other sexual orientations, heterosexuality and homosexuality, that in truth have more in common with each other than […]