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The big difference between 2003 and 2025? The elite are no longer concealing their contempt for us

Allowing this blog to become too current affairs centric makes it more boring than it usually is, and depressing, for me and anyone who has the misfortune to happen upon it. Still, certain topics reach such enormity that it’s cowardly … Continue reading

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Why the latest Israel and Hamas conflict has convinced me to quit Twitter for good

Malcolm X’s famous quote is roughly sixty years old, but even he would be astonished by social media’s corrosiveness on political discourse. The nasty, polarised response online to this new round of Israeli-Palestine hostility has clarified that all media platforms … Continue reading

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