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Panic Petrol: A Tory blunder
Published on 2012-03-31 12:53:11
On Question Time this week, the frankly embarrassing Liberal Democrat Minister for Children and Families, Sarah Teather blamed the Unions for the panic buying of petrol that we’ve seen this week in the UK. In typical Tory fashion, she could think of no other reason why people might rush to the petrol pumps, than to [...] > read more
Sun Shame
Published on 2012-02-29 07:59:53
The Sun is on a moral crusade. The Sun…. on a moral crusade. THE SUN! The very idea baffles me. Whilst they’re currently being investigated for paying police for stories, they’re taking the moral high ground elsewhere. Today The Sun has said it: CALLS on all Brits to be patriotic and report any cheats you [...] > read more
Fascism and Islam
Published on 2012-02-04 10:57:00
So the EDL are in my city today, breaking stuff and assaulting people. Beneath the mask of “we just don’t like terrorists” lies quite obvious fascist sentiment by a bunch of illiterate chav thugs in cheap tracksuits. We must remember that there is nothing ‘English’ about exclusion. We are a diverse and dynamic culture. We [...] > read more
The light flickers in our hall way.
Published on 2011-12-20 09:50:00
The light flickers in our hall way. I never noticed it before. But it flickers every three seconds. I counted. Counting flickers means that the mind is focused on something that matters little. Instead of people watching. People watching has evolved into people loathing. Nandos menus have about four different fonts. I want to throw [...] > read more
Christopher Hitchens 1949 – 2011
Published on 2011-12-16 05:54:56
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and [...] > read more
The November 30th Strikes
Published on 2011-11-23 11:00:05
Conservative Party hypocrisy reached a new high today, when The Sun published an article in which David Cameron calls on public sector workers to defy their unions, by not going on strike on November 30th. The phrase the Prime Minister used, which really quite sums up the sort of post-modern irony that seems to run [...] > read more
Usama Hasan – A hero to the Islamic World.
Published on 2011-11-12 09:29:06
On Wednesday, I met Jesus. He is a shop lifter from Poland. He lives in London now. And his mother is from Stoke. And yet, amusingly, this isn’t the most ridiculous religious nonsense I have been subjected to this week. My Atheist entries are usually aimed at either Theism as a whole, or Christianity. I [...] > read more
We are the stars…
Published on 2011-11-05 06:08:35
There is a sort of innate beauty in reflection. The mind can be a rather chaotic place, and reflection is a curious calming influence. Quite some time ago I came to the conclusion that there is no God. I came to the conclusion that there is no after life. I came to the conclusion that [...] > read more
The Nation is the new God.
Published on 2011-10-27 09:44:26
Throughout my lectures on Nationalism, I am becoming increasingly aware, that if you were to substitute the word “Nationalism” for “Religion”, the context and the surrounding wording, wouldn’t have to be modified, and we’d still end up with a perfectly rational statement. Like Nationalism, religion relies on the rather solipsistic idea that we as a [...] > read more
The Tory Party: One big PR disaster
Published on 2011-10-17 13:11:35
Every morning, David Cameron must get out of bed, and feel as if he is walking through a storm without an umbrella. And instead of being soaked in water, he’s drowning in collective Cabinet shit. The Tory front bench, is a PR disaster, almost on a daily basis now. The media is totally in control [...] > read more
It used to be Patriotism, but now “It’s just my opinion” is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Published on 2011-10-08 14:30:30
Debate is perhaps the most intrinsically key ingredient of social progression that humanity is blessed with. Rationality is a tool that we have evolved beyond that of any other creature on the planet. We should use it wisely and we should be well informed before we jump to conclusions, especially if we have influence upon [...] > read more
Daily Mail – Incomprehensible tirade of bullshit
Published on 2011-10-03 16:00:15
Amanda Knox looked stunned this evening after she dramatically lost her prison appeal against her murder conviction. - All very well, except, she didn’t dramatically lose, and she was in fact acquitted. We all know that the Daily Mail repels the concepts of ‘fact’ and ‘honesty’, but this is an astoundingly incomprehensible tirade of bullshit, [...] > read more
…solidarity to pure wind
Published on 2011-05-11 15:32:01
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind.“ - George Orwell Everybody on the planet is capable of synesthesic thought. Usually we only identif > read more
The demise of the Liberal Democrats
Published on 2011-05-07 09:31:03
Whilst the World waits to find out who the new leader of Al Qaeda is (my money is on either the other bloke from Wham, or the Dragon’s Den presenter with the gammy eye. Failing that, a coalition with Hamas and the Lib Dems might be workable), o > read more
Obama 2012
Published on 2011-05-03 07:49:04
It has been a fantastic week for President Obama. His poll ratings hang around the 46% mark at the moment but the killing of Bin Laden is likely to boost those ratings some what. Interestingly, Clinton, Reagan and Carter all had lower approval rating > read more
The Kennedy Assassination
Published on 2011-05-02 14:20:05
It is my mission in life, to stand on Dealey Plaza. I want to understand the setting for myself. I want to stand at the picket fence. I want to, quite morbidly, stand on the cross in the road. I want to stand where Abraham Zapruder stood. The assassi > read more
The Royal Summary….
Published on 2011-04-29 05:25:16
It is nice to see that William and Kate chose to get married 66 years to the day that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun tied the knot. And as Australian Geoff pointed out, William is a relative of Henry VIII. We can expect Kate to be his first wife, and for > read more
The era of the injunction
Published on 2011-04-23 08:30:36
In a Galaxy time far far away – 1534 to be precise – a pretty messy year for advocates of free speech and those who disagreed with the Crown took place. First, the Act of Supremacy was passed, which insisted that Henry VIII was the ONLY h > read more
No To AV
Published on 2011-04-21 15:04:16
I have been wanting to write a blog on this subject for a while, but it appears to be the most boring subject known to man. Half way through writing, I want to break down, cry, question my life, and then jump off Westminster bridge. That’s how > read more
…from her melodious lay
Published on 2011-04-20 11:31:15
If you take the time to read the diary entries of Christopher Columbus after he found land in the “New World“, you notice a distinct lack of awe. There is no language describing in detail the land itself. This is a continent that no Europ > read more
Like life
Published on 2011-04-15 11:28:39
Sometimes I just want to write. I don’t know why, but it becomes a sort of irreproachable desire that overwhelms whatever it is I am doing at the particular moment and I want to write. I have hundreds of drafts of random blogs I’ve starte > read more
Racism in America: Today
Published on 2011-04-13 16:02:42
When the United States was beginning to form, there was a hierarchy of oppression that kept everyone subservient to someone above them. The King of England demanded goods from the Jamestown white elite who exploited and controlled the white frontiers > read more
God the predator
Published on 2011-04-10 15:08:19
One of the greatest evolutionary qualities of any animal, is the defence mechanism of the Horned Lizard. It believes it is the top of the food chain, and is blissfully unaware of any predator, until that predator is close enough to cause such powerfu > read more
The hypocrisy of the Guardian.
Published on 2011-04-03 13:18:06
In 2009 The Guardian ran a series of stories surrounding Corporate Tax Avoidance and its worse adherents. One of the Guardian’s chief reporters on the situation is Richard Brooks. Brooks, in 2009 wrote this: The Guardian’s investigation a > read more
The necessity of Marxism
Published on 2011-04-01 10:56:44
As most of you are accutely aware by my interpretation of political events, I am a Marxist. I believe Marxism can and should be used to explain the financial crises we’ve just been through, as a matter of urgency rather than consigned to the hi > read more
The curse of Mother Theresa
Published on 2011-03-28 05:52:05
2010 marked 100 years since the birth of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Mother Theresa. She is a Catholic heroine, beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003 at St Peters in Rome by Pope John Paul II, and given a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She is known the Wor > read more
Bricks and mortar
Published on 2011-03-27 17:57:33
This is Samantha Cameron, the wife of David Cameron: This is a section of 300,000+ people: The public are very similar to Sam Cameron, in that they’re being fucked by David too. This is a gimp: A gimp is traditionally expected to keep quiet and > read more
The Tory banking Legacy
Published on 2011-03-23 12:59:03
”Last Friday I visited Rawlins community college in my constituency and spoke to a very bright group of economics students. We discussed the fact that Governments cannot spend money they do not have. The students understood that; why does my > read more
The Libyan intervention
Published on 2011-03-21 12:30:47
I am not sure what I think of the intervention in Libya. I am not taking the dogmatic view that this is just another example of US led aggression in an oil rich land, for immoral business opportunities. It certainly was the case with Iraq, I don̵ > read more
The mouth of a river in spring
Published on 2011-03-17 10:30:39
When I was six, before life became work, and taxes, and benefit cheats, and women, and racism, and war, and men in suits, and bin collections, and Churchill car insurance, and bank charges for unplanned overdrafts, and Company mission statements with > read more
The grand of Duke of… underage sex brothels.
Published on 2011-03-15 15:02:43
I don’t like dentists. They exist only to hurt my face. I went to the dentist yesterday for two fillings. Today, my face feels eerily reminiscent of when I used to go to boxing and was furiously punched in the face by the kid with the hardest p > read more
Corporatocracy as Democracy.
Published on 2011-03-10 12:39:51
In 2010 the U.S Supreme Court over turned limitations to Corporations financing political broadcasts in the U.S. They argued that to limit financing from Corporations would be an attack on their first Amendment rights. They didn’t however set h > read more
If we believe absurdities, we commit atrocities…
Published on 2011-03-05 19:20:25
You are perhaps going to have to forgive me for writing a blog that is all over the place, this is a subject that I have tried to grapple with for the past few days, almost non-stop, and so this blog is almost just a bunch of thoughts splashed on a p > read more
Racism in America: Lincoln
Published on 2011-03-02 12:34:13
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 brought with it the utopic notion that racism in the United States of America was over. I certainly do not the doubt the momentous appointment of an African American man to the office of President of a country tha > read more
Blinded by Patriotism
Published on 2011-02-27 09:33:32
In 2003 the Americans tried to convince the World that Al Jazeera had been infiltrated by spies, in an effort to produce propaganda for the war in Iraq. It is an interesting and mightily hypocritical claim by the U.S who have a media largely in bed w > read more
My law on marriage
Published on 2011-02-26 12:29:12
Good news from America. The Executive Branch has moved away from the 1950s, and away from the Christian fundamentalist businessmen who currently have control of the Congress. The Obama Administration announced this week that it could no longer suppor > read more
A place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Published on 2011-02-25 14:57:42
Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which > read more
The burden of proof
Published on 2011-02-22 13:35:51
I cannot work out if this man… …. Is a post-modern artist of some variety, or a crazy Christian with no sense of irony. I ask, because his tattoo reads: “[Thou] shall not lie with a male as one does with a woman. It is an abomination. L > read more
Cameronism
Published on 2011-02-21 05:52:19
Neoliberalism: The tyranny of Big Business, under the mask of “Freedom“. I have always wondered how the very fortunate manage to convince the very unfortunate that perpetuating that system is to everyone’s benefit. Thatcher managed > read more
Pig Society Part III
Published on 2011-02-18 18:16:10
David Cameron took a break today from trying to convince a very very unconvinced public that the Big Society idea is such a wondrous agenda, to work for a No vote for AV. So whilst he’s doing that, I thought i’d continue my series of blog > read more
The Pig Society Part II
Published on 2011-02-16 11:57:08
The Big Society grows ever stronger, and support grows ever wider, charity bosses and workers applaud it and sing its praises, because it is a wonderful plan that is definitely not a cover for a mass of Corporate tax cuts. That is what delusional Con > read more
Why the Big Society is a load of bollocks
Published on 2011-02-14 04:47:57
I have taken it upon myself to write a bullet point list of why the Big Society is a load of bollocks. It’s a Tory plan. In principle, is sounds lovely, and cuddly; a Country where everyone helps the little old lady cross the street, and the st > read more
Welcome to Corporate England…
Published on 2011-02-09 07:01:30
It was an exceptionally busy day in British politics yesterday. First, the dirtiest and most destructive years of the past half a century in Britain is being made into a film, staring Meryl Streep as Satan Baroness Thatcher…….. How scary > read more
The antonym of reason
Published on 2011-02-07 15:13:54
It is no secret that given my way, I would have chapters from ‘God is not great’ by the wonderful Christopher Hitchens read loudly to school children in early morning assembly, followed by a reading from Darwin’s Origin of Species. > read more
Multiculturalism in England
Published on 2011-02-05 08:05:17
At the Student protest rally in London last November, I saw a group of people marching together; laughing and joking, holding a sign saying “Jewish and Muslim Students Unite“. A Jewish guy was holding the hand of a Muslim girl. Sadly, I d > read more
Futile Scribble
Published on 2011-02-04 08:49:55
I am writing more and more in my little notebook recently, and I’d quite like to blog the notes I make, in some sort of vain attempt to appeal to my creative writing side. So alongside Futile Democracy and Futile Photography, I now own Futile S > read more
O’Reilly proves the existence of God.
Published on 2011-02-02 13:19:10
I quite liked this video. It is disturbing to my sense of rationality, that Bill O’Reilly is one of the most watched men in America. In this video, he proves the existence of God (in the illogical world of Christian America, if nowhere else) by > read more
The curse of stupidity.
Published on 2011-02-01 15:17:35
Taken at Hyde Park Taken in 2008 Taken with Canon 400D Displayed because it’s a calming photo, at the end of not so calming day. ———————————————— > read more
A snapshot of thought
Published on 2011-01-31 16:37:04
Taken in Istanbul, in 2007. Taken using a Canon 400D. ——————————————————— I am carrying a notebook around recently. Taking little notes > read more
The Keys and Gray Affair
Published on 2011-01-30 07:20:25
There have been a lot of people on my facebook wall especially who, not content with insisting every Christmas that Muslims are trying to destroy their holiday cheer, also have an issue with the recent dismissal of Andy Grey and Richard Keys from Sky > read more
Communism before Marx
Published on 2011-01-28 16:18:00
There are people I am familiar with who seem to dismiss the philosophy of Karl Marx without knowing why they do so. Most are Conservative supporters, blissfully unaware of the irony of their unwavering support for an economic system that has so miser > read more
On a Metro train in Paris
Published on 2011-01-27 14:14:48
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” What is a writer? An artist? or just a narcissist. Especially bloggers. We think we have something important to tell the World, or to convince the World that > read more
…wouldn’t you just eat a salad?
Published on 2011-01-26 06:04:23
“we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious” In my Politics class, we sit and have a rather tedious discussion most weeks. There is a bin in the corner, about 3 metre > read more
The morning of Bukowski
Published on 2011-01-25 05:29:07
One of my photos from Paris. A short and sweet blog today. I am waiting on an email back, in order to post a longer, more precise blog. So today, I thought i’d be a little bit spontaneous and post a poem by Charles Bukowski that I have come to > read more
Render unto Caesar…
Published on 2011-01-22 17:11:14
As you walk down the Rue de Souffle in the Latin Quarter of Paris, looking straight ahead of you, it is impossible to ignore the pure beauty of the Pantheon as it towers above everything else surrounding it. The road, named after the Architect of the > read more
On this day…
Published on 2011-01-21 11:34:31
I am 25 today. It’s rather old. A quarter of a century. I dropped Ash off at Gatwick this morning and have just got home. She has now gone home. I have to wait five and a half months to have her back. I don’t like that at all. Up until ab > read more
The art of being boring
Published on 2011-01-17 14:50:37
There is a sort of serenity when you realise that you are an invariably boring person. You start to appreciate your apparent self deluded sense of sanity and absorb yourself in the wonderment of cynical boringness. I still get a little annoyed and de > read more
Tattoo day
Published on 2011-01-12 15:54:28
Today Ash bought my birthday present. A tattoo. It is in remembrance of the two weeks in which my grandparents died and my mum left. A couple of weeks that changed a lot of things. It is also in respect to how I view the working world. An silly absur > read more
Let them pick fruit
Published on 2011-01-09 12:40:38
Tory Councillor David Shakespeare recently suggested that those Northerners who will inevitably suffer from higher VAT, higher unemployment and rising prices across the board, should be made to pick the fruit of the richer southerners. He stated that > read more
Adolf, by Smith
Published on 2011-01-08 03:29:19
Ash fashionised me in Paris. I have cleared out my wardrobe. Seven bin bags full of crap. Six bin bags full of clothes to take to the charity shops. That’s probably letting it get a bit too far isn’t it? I’m a boy though. We’r > read more
“A socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore…”
Published on 2011-01-06 18:59:19
At 37 Rue Bûcherie, just across the river from the Notre Dame in Paris, stands a quaint little English bookshop called Shakespeare and Co. At this bookshop, aspiring writers are allowed to live above it for free, working a couple of hours in the sho > read more
The Christmas Blog
Published on 2010-12-25 06:41:22
I haven’t blogged recently for a couple of reasons. Firstly, Ash is over for the next month and we’ve been busy in London and shopping. In fact, so busy shopping, that we left the buying of Christmas Day food, until 10pm Christmas EveR > read more