The Tory Party Has Gone Missing
- June 21, 2019
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- Matt
Some readers may have heard of the mass hallucinations that took place at the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951. As John Grant Fuller describes it in The Day of Saint Anthony’s Fire, on 15 August that year the entire village of 250 inhabitants woke up and began seeing visions. One man sat down to...
Hollow Man: Boris Johnson’s Delusions of Grandeur
- June 19, 2019
- by
- Matt
“It can safely be said that the last three years have not been fruitful ones in the history of the United Kingdom. Politically speaking, the 2016 referendum has opened a political hellmouth straight out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which a seemingly endless procession of charlatans, mediocrities and outright monstrosities haunts the polis with messages that...
Hormuz: Iran in the Gunsights
- June 16, 2019
- by
- Matt
If US and British intelligence services are to be believed, Iran has just attacked two tankers at the crucial Strait of Hormuz choke point. So far the only evidence to support this allegation is a video that apparently shows Iranian naval commandos removing a limpet mine from the hull of the Kokuka Courageous tanker.
It’s not...
Anthropocene: the Human Epoch
- June 12, 2019
- by
- Matt
In the last few years scientists have attempted with increasing urgency to draw attention to our impending ecological catastrophe. But the deliberations of scientists don’t always have the impact they should have, partly because climate change and the degradation of the biosphere are complex subjects in themselves, and also because the careful and cautious language...
Tory Crackhouse
- June 09, 2019
- by
- Matt
For the last three years UK politics have become a collective political hallucination that makes Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds seem like a script for a gritty sociorealist documentary. Instead of rocking horse people eating marshmallow pie, it’s a country stalked by grifters, fascist thugs, unicorns and monsters; where demagogues accuse politicians of treason...
Vultures in Brexitland
- June 05, 2019
- by
- Matt
As everyone knows, Donald Trump lies as he breathes. He lies about big things and small things, and he lies about absurd and ridiculous things. But despite his almost psychopathic dishonesty, Trump is also a stupid man, and so there are times when he doesn’t lie about the things that you would expect more intelligent...
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