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Amazingly, some Gazans still support Hamas

Begun January 2025 | 1,600 words | Contents Seeing defiant Hamas fighters on TV during hostage releases, I wondered if, given the havoc Hamas has provoked, Gazan people still support them. Amazingly, some do. Hamas fighters pictured during a hostage release | Photo: Reuters Top 🔼 Contents Introduction What do Gazans think of Hamas? Hamas strategy: spark regional war Donald Chump’s Nazi plan for…

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Blog grief

I’m in mourning for my dead blog. I killed it to end its suffering and now I’m grieving. I did it for ten years, wrote loads of posts, updated and edited them. It was my life! I thought my writing was pretty good. It’s kind of embarassing to admit, but I hoped to be recognised for that. I wasn’t. ‘View’ numbers peaked about four years ago. I kept writing but it suddenly seemed pointless. So I’ve…

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The slave trade

Started August 2016 | last updated May 2025 | 1,700 words | Contents This is a standalone version of a section in my post Racism explained – as a redundant instinct. The slave trade Top 🔼 Contents Introduction The slave trade and slavery in the Americas After slavery The slave trade 🔼 Introduction The misery of slavery has, of course, existed in nearly every culture, nationality, and religion…

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The Holocaust

A psycho delusion Started August 2016 | last updated May 2025 | 1,700 words | Contents This is also a section in my post Racism explained – as a redundant instinct. It’s repurposed here as a standalone post Note: In this post, the nonsensical phrases ‘antisemitic’ and ‘antisemitism’ aren’t used. ‘Anti-Jewish’ and ‘anti-Judaism’ are used instead. Contents Introduction The Holocaust How could…

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Is Israel suffering from collective post-Holocaust PTSD psychosis?

Mahmoud Ajjour, nine, lost both arms during an Israeli attack on Gaza City | Photo: Samar Abu Elouf / New York Times May 2025 Rightwing Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, accused by the ICC in 2024 of war crimes and crimes against humanity, has been on trial in Israel since 2020 on multiple charges of corruption. In the last (proportional representation) election in 2022, Netanyahu got 23% of…

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Personification of multiversal consciousness writes off humanity.

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Thanks a lot, Trump voters

Anti-Trump protests increase – state of emergency – prison camps – executions – President-for-life. Or Trump-induced past-the-tipping-point environmental destruction and end of civilisation. Or both. Or whichever comes first. Nice. Thanks a lot.

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Where are you from?

A microracist question Begun August 2024 | 3,500 words | Contents Shutterstock Where are you from? Contents 🔺 Contents Introduction Not so easy to answer Kenya and Uganda Why are you here? Why don’t you go back there? White Brits: don’t ask Conclusion Where are you from 🔺 Introduction Othering Britons with brown or black skin are often asked, ‘Where are you from?’. British South Asian…

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Amazingly, Gazans still support Hamas

January 2025 Seeing defiant Hamas fighters on TV during the hostage release made me wonder: do Gazan people still support them? Seaside genocide | Photo: AP/Getty Recent polls show many Gazans do support Hamas. How deluded is that? Hamas have said their attack was intended to provoke a strong Israeli response and a consequent pan-Arab uprising against Israel. The regional uprising didn’t happen –…

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Illustration: DesignEternity The suggested emergence from random chemical interactions of the massively <b?complex molecule we call DNA is implausible. The only rational explanantion is that DNA must have been designed and made by a conscious and forceful entity, which might as well be called ‘God’. Yes, God the creator of life. Not as presented by any religion – only as implied by our…

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A house called Christmas

𝗔 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 Once upon a time – last year, actually – there was a house called Christmas. All the residents were supernatural beings. Baby Jesus lived in the attic with his mother. Santa lived in the main part with his wife and some elves. A pagan shaman lived in the cellar. (The absentee landlord, God, lived in a castle on a nearby mountain.) The residents had their own bathrooms but…

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Annoying Gaza butterfly broken

Majid Freeman goes to court in August 2024 | Aaron Chown/PA Media In July 2024, annoying UK activist/stirrer Majid Freeman was charged with terror offences. It’s a tale of muddled ideology, self-promotion, (possible) abuse of power and a new MP with links to extremism. The place: Leicester, UK. The people involved: Majid Freeman: (aka Majid Novsarka): Muslim campaigner Jon Ashworth: Former UK…

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Jackson Browne & Joni Mitchell

Their relationship – and how it ended up with Not to Blame Started 2021 | 12,00 words | 40 mins | British spelling | Contents Joni and Jackson – a match made in Hell? | Photo: unknown Digest Q: How did the brief 1972 relationship between Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell lead to Mitchell’s life-long grudge? A: Heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned…

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Gilligan, Blair and the Iraq war

Whatever happened to Andrew Gillingham? August 2023 | 1,250 words | Contents The sycophant and his rottweiler: UK premier Tony Blair and his director of communications Alastair Campbell in 2007 | Photo: Ben Curtis / PA Gilligan, Blair and the Iraq war Top🔺 Contents Introduction The ‘dodgy’ dossier Gilligan’s Today report – and its aftermath The Hutton inquiry Fake intelligence and war Whatever…

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Blog News: Modi to Blair to Brexit

Adobe/Shutterstock Blog News (a new feature!) August 2023 Some linked posts, new and not so new From Muslim killer Modi to Iraq war criminal Blair to all-round disaster Brexit in several complicated moves I’ve written – am still writing – a new post about the involvement of Hindu-supremacy à la Modi – Narendra Modi – in last year’s Leicester riots: The riots: Hindutva in Leicester? During the…

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Blog News: Modi to Blair to Brexit

Adobe/Shutterstock Blog News (a new feature!) August 2023 Some linked posts, new and not so new From Muslim killer Modi to Iraq war criminal Blair to all-round disaster Brexit in several complicated moves I’ve written – am still writing – a new post about the involvement of Hindu-supremacy à la Modi – Narendra Modi – in last year’s Leicester riots: The riots: Hindutva in Leicester? During the…

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The riots: Hindutva in Leicester?

Begun June 2023 | 13,800 words | Contents | They say… Digest: There’s some Hindutva in Leicester – but apparently not much. Yet. Screenshot of video showing hundreds of masked men marching down Green Lane Road, Leicester. The video records Hindutva chanting. The riots: Hindutva in Leicester? Top🔺 Contents Preamble Hindutva chanting, Modi and the RSS Anecdotal evidence Causes suggested Top…