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Conservatives and their reactionary cousins believe that their views are true because they believe them. They don't need hard proof or to be able to argue for them. They're "common sense."
This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists.
This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists.
January 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Conservatives and their reactionary cousins believe that their views are true because they believe them. They don't need hard proof or to be able to argue for them. They're "common sense."
This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists.
This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists.
The Hague version is sublime. Some geeky facts here about it – but the part about Careless Whisper is amazing www.muzines.co.uk/articles/tra...
Track Record: West End Girls (International Musician & Recording World, Mar 1986)
Jim Betteridge meets Steven Hague: neither is vague
www.muzines.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The Hague version is sublime. Some geeky facts here about it – but the part about Careless Whisper is amazing www.muzines.co.uk/articles/tra...
I think it’s the last of his properly postmodern works
January 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I think it’s the last of his properly postmodern works
The Lemon Table (also about death!) is my favourite of his short story collections
January 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The Lemon Table (also about death!) is my favourite of his short story collections
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Looks like I spoke too soon about breaking the pattern. No bad thing.
Looks like I spoke too soon about breaking the pattern. No bad thing.
January 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Looks like I spoke too soon about breaking the pattern. No bad thing.
Looks like I spoke too soon about breaking the pattern. No bad thing.
And now my other fave author! Have you read The Palm House yet? Have been waiting for it for so long. Looks like it’s finally breaking out of thinly-veiled autobiography
January 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
And now my other fave author! Have you read The Palm House yet? Have been waiting for it for so long. Looks like it’s finally breaking out of thinly-veiled autobiography
I used to love JB, and I have all of these hardbacks too. Something fell off for me around the time of Arthur & George. I hated The Only Story. I hope his last gets back to the peaks, but perhaps it’s me not him.
January 17, 2026 at 10:59 AM
I used to love JB, and I have all of these hardbacks too. Something fell off for me around the time of Arthur & George. I hated The Only Story. I hope his last gets back to the peaks, but perhaps it’s me not him.
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If there is to be a serious movement for Rejoin - and the numbers are there in the polls - it will fall to a new generation of politicians. Rather than ones with so much - how to put it? - baggage…
January 17, 2026 at 9:56 AM
If there is to be a serious movement for Rejoin - and the numbers are there in the polls - it will fall to a new generation of politicians. Rather than ones with so much - how to put it? - baggage…