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Starmer et al will have lucrative careers in banking, consultancy or whatnot after they've destroyed the Labour Party. They'll be amply rewarded for a job well done.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 15-17 November 2025
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Starmer et al will have lucrative careers in banking, consultancy or whatnot after they've destroyed the Labour Party. They'll be amply rewarded for a job well done.
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The more wealth a ruling class accumulates and the further it gets from that wealth's actual sources of production, the more mentally fragile it becomes and the more it shapes its impressions of the world to its delusions and manias.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The more wealth a ruling class accumulates and the further it gets from that wealth's actual sources of production, the more mentally fragile it becomes and the more it shapes its impressions of the world to its delusions and manias.
Great interview on the underappreciated and weirder aspects of JG Frazer's 'The Golden Bough', and its wide influence on modernist art, Lovecraft, Crowley, Graves, Gardner, etc. shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
shwep.net
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Great interview on the underappreciated and weirder aspects of JG Frazer's 'The Golden Bough', and its wide influence on modernist art, Lovecraft, Crowley, Graves, Gardner, etc. shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
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The right has become essentially a big propaganda apparatus; that's scary but also a weakness.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/operation-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/operation-...
Operation Drumbeat
The Right is Loud but Hollow
www.unpopularfront.news
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The right has become essentially a big propaganda apparatus; that's scary but also a weakness.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/operation-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/operation-...
Interesting bit of retro-futurism, BBC's Tomorrow's World programme in 1967 filming the light machines of Mike Leonard at his house in Highgate - with music by his tenants, Pink Floyd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzY9...
Pink Floyd - Tomorrow’s World, Stanhope Gardens, Hampstead, London (12/12/1967)
YouTube video by Pink Floyd Videos
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Interesting bit of retro-futurism, BBC's Tomorrow's World programme in 1967 filming the light machines of Mike Leonard at his house in Highgate - with music by his tenants, Pink Floyd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzY9...
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Finally set myself up a website for my practice. If you are curious about starting psychotherapy, or know of anyone in a similar position, please feel free to contact me. I specialise in body-based or somatic psychotherapy, that is therapy which incorporates the body and breath
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Finally set myself up a website for my practice. If you are curious about starting psychotherapy, or know of anyone in a similar position, please feel free to contact me. I specialise in body-based or somatic psychotherapy, that is therapy which incorporates the body and breath
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"You are what you eat" applies to your media diet, too.
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"You are what you eat" applies to your media diet, too.
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Georges Bataille was a passionate advocate for William Blake among the Surrealists. But how did he connect Blake to his own philosophy of excess? Bataille scholar, Stuart Kendall, explains
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/georges-ba...
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/georges-ba...
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Georges Bataille was a passionate advocate for William Blake among the Surrealists. But how did he connect Blake to his own philosophy of excess? Bataille scholar, Stuart Kendall, explains
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/georges-ba...
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/georges-ba...
'Gods want to be your friend. It's not scriptural, but it's kind of a hunch I have.' soundcloud.com/user-9401093...
AEWCH 247: DANIEL HIGGS - THE SPIRITUAL LANDS OF SOUND, ART, AND FRIENDSHIP
I talk with visionary artist and front person of Lungfish, musician Daniel Higgs about friendship, perceiving spiritual beings in a spiritual landscape, the way a presence appears in the middle of a c
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October 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'Gods want to be your friend. It's not scriptural, but it's kind of a hunch I have.' soundcloud.com/user-9401093...
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Right-wingers with their petulant anti-anti-racism nourished the viper of antisemitism in their bosom.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-viper-in...
A Viper in its Bosom
The Right nourished and protected its Antisemitic Wing
www.unpopularfront.news
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Right-wingers with their petulant anti-anti-racism nourished the viper of antisemitism in their bosom.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-viper-in...
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As millions of Americans are about to lose their SNAP benefits, I am reminded of this quote by Emma Goldman:
"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."
"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As millions of Americans are about to lose their SNAP benefits, I am reminded of this quote by Emma Goldman:
"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."
"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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I think the real significance of Caerphilly is that once centre-left voters start accepting that they might have to vote for parties to the left of Labour in order to block Reform, then the entire basis for centrist political strategy since the 1970s is out of the window.
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think the real significance of Caerphilly is that once centre-left voters start accepting that they might have to vote for parties to the left of Labour in order to block Reform, then the entire basis for centrist political strategy since the 1970s is out of the window.
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We're out and about at the Small Publishers Fair today and tomorrow!
Come and find us inside Conway Hall peddling our wares 📚
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October.
See who else will be there --> smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...
Come and find us inside Conway Hall peddling our wares 📚
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October.
See who else will be there --> smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We're out and about at the Small Publishers Fair today and tomorrow!
Come and find us inside Conway Hall peddling our wares 📚
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October.
See who else will be there --> smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...
Come and find us inside Conway Hall peddling our wares 📚
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October.
See who else will be there --> smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...
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Whenever a writer comes to me with concerns about their work being misinterpreted or approached incorrectly, I remind them that many people are just incredibly stupid, incurious, and dull.
October 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Whenever a writer comes to me with concerns about their work being misinterpreted or approached incorrectly, I remind them that many people are just incredibly stupid, incurious, and dull.
Not certain yet, of course. But... blimey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, say scientists
New analysis suggests our species began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Not certain yet, of course. But... blimey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good discussion between John Ganz and Dylan Riley www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good discussion between John Ganz and Dylan Riley www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Join us for our upcoming exhibition Panic: Visions of The Horned God in the English Country Garden, photographs by Sara Hannant.
17-20 October 2025.
More info & book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ronald-hut...
17-20 October 2025.
More info & book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ronald-hut...
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Join us for our upcoming exhibition Panic: Visions of The Horned God in the English Country Garden, photographs by Sara Hannant.
17-20 October 2025.
More info & book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ronald-hut...
17-20 October 2025.
More info & book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ronald-hut...
A cautious but thorough critique of JD Vance's cynical appropriation of Girard, and Peter Thiel's reading of Girard, his deviations via Schmitt, Spengler and Strauss. Written by someone who also studied under Girard at Stanford in the '90s. salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/117...
From Philosophy To Power - Salmagundi Magazine
René Girard’s Legacy This past summer, I was surprised to encounter a face I knew in two most unexpected places. The first was in a photo montage accompanying an article written by Josh Kovensky of...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A cautious but thorough critique of JD Vance's cynical appropriation of Girard, and Peter Thiel's reading of Girard, his deviations via Schmitt, Spengler and Strauss. Written by someone who also studied under Girard at Stanford in the '90s. salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/117...