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Saturday, June 21, 2025

Might almost certainly won't make right...

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Indeed, it’s not nuclear projectile science, so to speak. The region has become locked in a loop where the violence is either enacted to f...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Can decisive action wait?

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There surely cannot be any semblance of peace in the Near East until those who live and die for the dream of eradicating Jewish civilisation...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Mountainhead (2025)

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Is it me or are they really making movies these days in such a way that audiences are going to really struggle to decide whether they’ve s...

The Surfer (2024)

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  In spite of what this publicity still might suggest, this is neither a Christmas movie nor indeed a surfing movie. It's very much a Ni...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

The Wrong Candidate

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  You can often identify an extremist simply by spotting how bad they are at affecting to be reasonable. ​This week I came across one of tho...

Designated Foreigners

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Anti-Colonial theory — which at its most simplistic and fanatical is little more than a binary moral judgment concerning the populations lef...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Enraged vs Deranged

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Terrorism is not a euphemism for a non-white person with a grudge. (And this usage, even by inference, should definitely be avoided in the m...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

The Myth of Tordesillas

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One myth this map reinforces is that these two were global superpowers of the era. Instead they were relatively impoverished small nations i...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

A word for the watermelon mob…

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Please stop comparing Israel to the Nazis. Everybody knows why you do it and it is thoroughly obnoxious and offensive and you cannot pretend...

Weaponised Crybullies

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Is 'Free Palestine' responsible for the murder of innocents in Manhattan? It kind of depends on how it is conceived and then express...

Can It

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Palestinianism and Zionism both have groundings in non-extremist, reasonable and realisable yearnings. Yet both ideals are being hijacked by...

The 'Phantasy of Artificial Intelligence'

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Jea n Baudrillard’s The Perfect Crime reads like a dire warning about technology as an ‘extreme phenomenon’ from way back in ‘96, similar t...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Particular Skills

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In a recent interview Bible-bashing actress Sydney Sweeney helpfully reminded everyone that the Crusades were “defensive”.       Well, kinda...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Grand Communion

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As I have examined in the previous posts, Dostoevsky’s antisemitism was in a sense a side-effect of his belief in the imminent arrival of a ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Jewlaks

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Dostoevsky, literary poster boy of universal brotherhood and compassion, was also a really horrid antisemite. Many other such bigots are per...

The Dostoevsky Problem

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The name given by scholars to the phenomenon whereby individuals who appear to define themselves by their compassion, somehow withhold it fr...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Quatermass (Thames TV)

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I have lately been re-viewing some of the films and TV shows which most unsettled me as a child, and this 1979 four-parter, written by Nigel...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Dumbfounding

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During the 2-3 year period when we were working through the deal underpinning the sale of our company, I was exposed on numerous occasions t...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Potted History

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  These potted histories of the subcontinent and its currently sub-nuclear discords, usually delivered via animated infographics, are starti...

VE Day(s)

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This has been a week where, after eighty years, it has become clear that our culture is losing a bit of clarity around how and when (and whe...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Locked (2025)

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  This is basically a B movie with an A-list, two-hander cast. You wouldn’t even need a whole ride in an elevator to pitch the concept. A Co...
Friday, May 09, 2025

Intransigence

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  There are several points of view or even world-views which have informed the conflict in the Levant over the last 80 or so years. The Arab...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Game of Isms

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ISMs are, for me at least, codified systems of ideas that want to be shared. The basic idea is that those who live their lives according to ...
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Inner Diablog
Magister (MA Hons Cantab). Flâneur, Cronista, Secret Garden Occupant, Infidel, INTP, OP, Traveller (54 countries), Honorario Chapin desde 1988.
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