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blogs about anti fascism, radical politics and music history. Reluctantly understands Aleksandr Dugin. He/Him
Anniversary Analysis time! Underground Hip-Hop had a great 2025 that showed how varied the genre is, with albums by billy woods, De La Soul, Freddie Biggs & Alchemist, Clipse and Bruiser Wolf poetetc.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...
Anniversary Analysis: 2025 (Underground Hip Hop Edition)
And welcome back to Anniversary Analysis, the series where normally we look at albums celebrating a decade milestone, but that in January and February we use to look at last year’s album, in …
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January 12, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Anniversary Analysis time! Underground Hip-Hop had a great 2025 that showed how varied the genre is, with albums by billy woods, De La Soul, Freddie Biggs & Alchemist, Clipse and Bruiser Wolf poetetc.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...
Blog this week is about a sweet looking cat mural in Leeds that's secretly about Hong Kong Independence Riots. poetetc.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...
A Secretly Radical Mural In Leeds
Annual Leeds graffiti check in – this time looking at a single mural in the City Market food court. What a cute picture of cats in Hong Kong. How many references to the 2014 and 2019 independence r…
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January 5, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Blog this week is about a sweet looking cat mural in Leeds that's secretly about Hong Kong Independence Riots. poetetc.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...
The year end Anniversary Analysis, stacking all the best albums celebrating significant anniversaries against each other and picking the best, because my subjective opinion is objective fact. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/a...
Anniversary Analysis: Year 11 Round-Up
Okay, we spent the year going through 65+ albums over a fifty year stretch, looking at the best albums of ’75, ’85, ’95, ’05, ’15 and ’24 and narrowing them down…
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December 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The year end Anniversary Analysis, stacking all the best albums celebrating significant anniversaries against each other and picking the best, because my subjective opinion is objective fact. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/a...
Got a few new follows from the CRPG crowd this week, here's a piece about Fascism in Fallout creatively titled Fascism in Fallout that I'm very proud of poetetc.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/f...
Fascism in Fallout
Fascism. Fascism never changes.25 years ago today, Fallout was released. The best game ever is deeply subjective, but people are still modding it, still working in communities to try and chase the …
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December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Got a few new follows from the CRPG crowd this week, here's a piece about Fascism in Fallout creatively titled Fascism in Fallout that I'm very proud of poetetc.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/f...
Couldn't come up with five reasons for political optimism in the new year this time around. Did manage five places where 2026 could be pivotal poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/f...
Five Places Where 2026 Really Matters
Optimism is dead!Okay, so, traditionally, penultimate Monday of the year, I give five reasons for political optimism next year. I feel like optimism is possible in most of these cases, but not all.…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Couldn't come up with five reasons for political optimism in the new year this time around. Did manage five places where 2026 could be pivotal poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/f...
Anniversary Analysis time, looking back on 1975's best albums, with Brian Eno, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell
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Anniversary Analysis: 1975 6-10
Hi and welcome back to Anniversary Analysis, the series that looks at significant albums celebrating significant anniversaries, with significance defined by best-of chart aggregator BestEverAlbums.…
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December 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Anniversary Analysis time, looking back on 1975's best albums, with Brian Eno, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell
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Blog this week looks at the cult CRPG Underrail and just how much of Yugoslav conflict is in it poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/u...
Underrail: A Serbian Game
There exists a stereotype about Americans that says that they only know about America and only understand things through the context of America. It is an ugly stereotype, like all stereotypes are a…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Blog this week looks at the cult CRPG Underrail and just how much of Yugoslav conflict is in it poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/u...
I was at the Your Party conference to see it survive its own birth better than many predicted. Here's what that was like: poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/f...
Fear and Loathing at the Your Party Conference
It is 7:13 on a November morning in the North of England. The whiskey hangover and details of the Your Party infighting are fighting for territory in my head as I watch a man try to get off at Hudd…
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December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I was at the Your Party conference to see it survive its own birth better than many predicted. Here's what that was like: poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/f...
Blog this week is a summary of Dugin's mad bullshit biography of Putin poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...
Putin vs Putin, Succinctly Summarised
Back in September, we looked in painful detail at Aleksandr Dugin’s Putin vs Putin, Vladimir Putin Viewed From The Right, a 2012 ostensible biography of Putin. When all was said and done, tha…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Blog this week is a summary of Dugin's mad bullshit biography of Putin poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...
Dropping back 50 years to look at 1975's best albums, featuring Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin and Queen poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...
Anniversary Analysis: 1975 1-5
Hi and welcome back to Anniversary Analysis, the series that looks at significant albums celebrating significant anniversaries, with significance defined by best-of chart aggregator BestEverAlbums.…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Dropping back 50 years to look at 1975's best albums, featuring Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin and Queen poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...
Blog this week is all four parts of the breakdown of Putin vs Putin, Dugin's insane and rambling political advertisement disguised as a Putin biography poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/a...
Aleksandr Dugin’s Putin vs Putin (Collected)
Collecting in one place all four parts of the coverage of Aleksandr Dugin’s nutfuck Frankenstein book ostensibly about Vladimir Putin And now for (maybe) our last look at a Dugin book. Putin …
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November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Blog this week is all four parts of the breakdown of Putin vs Putin, Dugin's insane and rambling political advertisement disguised as a Putin biography poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/a...
A political poem I wrote an age ago and the song it got turned into for the blog this week poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/f...
Fear (Poem)
Another poem. This one I wrote ten years ago. One of two poems of mine that Stockholm hardcore band Godmother turned into a song, which remains the coolest thing that’s happened to my writing…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A political poem I wrote an age ago and the song it got turned into for the blog this week poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/f...
An Island Ripe For Dictatorship, a poem about here poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a...
An Island Ripe For Dictatorship (Poem)
We are an island ripe for dictatorshipWe fought a war to be rid of royalty, just to put them backWe missed the feeling, we like to be told what to do.We put, in every city, Victoria on her ornate t…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:14 AM
An Island Ripe For Dictatorship, a poem about here poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/a...
Hopping back to 1985's consensus great albums on Anniversary Analysis, with Tears For Fears, The Cure, Steve McQueen, The Replacements and The Pogues. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/a...
Anniversary Analysis: 1985 6-10
Hi and welcome back to Anniversary Analysis, the series that looks at significant albums celebrating significant anniversaries, with significance defined by best-of chart aggregator BestEverAlbums.…
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October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Hopping back to 1985's consensus great albums on Anniversary Analysis, with Tears For Fears, The Cure, Steve McQueen, The Replacements and The Pogues. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/a...
It's the season of masks and monster, so here's a look at the ideas and political themes of the Hotline Miami games poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/d...
Dialing Back In To Hotline Miami
Outside of the usual range of material. I shoehorned the synthesiser brutality of Carpenter Brut into a review of 2015’s best music. I was introduced to his hypnotic violence through the equa…
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October 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's the season of masks and monster, so here's a look at the ideas and political themes of the Hotline Miami games poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/d...
Niklas Frank's cleansingly hate-filled biography of his Nazi war criminal father is unlike any other book and this week is about its obsession with how many eggs he stole from his victims. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/h...
Hans Frank’s 200,000 Stolen Eggs
Last year, I marked the anniversary of Governor General of Nazi Occupied Poland Hans Frank’s execution at Nuremberg by writing about his son’s biography of him. It’s the biography…
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October 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Niklas Frank's cleansingly hate-filled biography of his Nazi war criminal father is unlike any other book and this week is about its obsession with how many eggs he stole from his victims. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/h...
About genocide precursors in the UK poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/t...
The Distinction Of Enemies & Toxification In The UK
Bit different this week. Want to introduce two terms that I think describe what’s happening in the UK.Carl Schmitt: The Distinction Of EnemiesCarl Schmitt was the leading legal theorist of th…
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October 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
About genocide precursors in the UK poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/t...
Back to in 1985 on Anniversary Analysis, looking at Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Dire Straits, The Smiths and The Jesus And Mary Chain poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
Anniversary Analysis 1985 #1-5
Hi and welcome back to Anniversary Analysis, the series that looks at significant albums celebrating significant anniversaries, with significance defined by best-of chart aggregator BestEverAlbums.…
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September 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Back to in 1985 on Anniversary Analysis, looking at Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Dire Straits, The Smiths and The Jesus And Mary Chain poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/a...
The screaming crescendo of Dugin's biography of Putin, in which he concludes that Putin needs to do more Dugin shit if Russia is to be saved poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/p...
Putin vs Putin, Dugin’s 2012 Biography of Putin, Part Four (Dugin Docs)
Finishing up Putin vs Putin, a book by Aleksandr Dugin, published in 2012 in Russian, translated by Arktos in 2014. It is an offensive 760 pages and the first five and a half chapters are reprinted…
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September 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The screaming crescendo of Dugin's biography of Putin, in which he concludes that Putin needs to do more Dugin shit if Russia is to be saved poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/p...
Dugin's biography of Putin, wherein he finds the remedy to Russia's problems (fascism, it's fascism, it was always going to be fascism)
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Putin vs Putin, Dugin’s 2012 Biography of Putin, Part Three (Dugin Docs)
And now to continue (maybe) our last look at a Dugin book. Putin vs Putin, Putin Viewed From The Right is Dugin’s analysis of Putin in 2012. Dugin is a fringe influence on the Kremlin at this…
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September 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dugin's biography of Putin, wherein he finds the remedy to Russia's problems (fascism, it's fascism, it was always going to be fascism)
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In Part Two of Dugin's biography of Putin, Dugin justifies his expansionist worldview with a single conversation he claims to have had with an unnamed Chechen businessman who said he was basically Russian. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/p...
Putin vs Putin, Dugin’s 2012 Biography of Putin, Part Two (Dugin Docs)
And now to continue (maybe) our last look at a Dugin book. Putin vs Putin, Putin Viewed From The Right is Dugin’s analysis of Putin in 2012. Dugin is a fringe influence on the Kremlin at this…
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September 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In Part Two of Dugin's biography of Putin, Dugin justifies his expansionist worldview with a single conversation he claims to have had with an unnamed Chechen businessman who said he was basically Russian. poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/p...
Part one of a look at Dugin's (sort of) biography of Putin. In this one, he compares him to Hercules poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/p...
Putin vs Putin, Dugin’s 2012 Biography of Putin, Part One (Dugin Docs)
And now for (maybe) our last look at a Dugin book. Putin vs Putin, Putin Viewed From The Right is Dugin’s analysis of Putin in 2012. Dugin is a fringe influence on the Kremlin at this time, w…
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September 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Part one of a look at Dugin's (sort of) biography of Putin. In this one, he compares him to Hercules poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/p...
Anniversary Analysis with the back half of 1995's top ten albums, an absolute killer line up with GZA, Elliott Smith and Pavement (also Alanis Morisette and PJ Harvey)
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Anniversary Analysis: 1995 6-10
Hi and welcome back to Anniversary Analysis, the series that looks at significant albums celebrating significant anniversaries, with significance defined by best-of chart aggregator BestEverAlbums.…
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August 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Anniversary Analysis with the back half of 1995's top ten albums, an absolute killer line up with GZA, Elliott Smith and Pavement (also Alanis Morisette and PJ Harvey)
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Lil late, here's the blog this week, looking at Duginism and the war in Ukraine poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/d...
Dugin and the Ukraine War (Dugin Docs)
Ending the cleanup of articles squirelled away in case they were useful to the Dugin series. This week, we’re looking at Russian action in Ukraine. Won’t be summarising the whole articl…
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August 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Lil late, here's the blog this week, looking at Duginism and the war in Ukraine poetetc.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/d...
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The Futility Of Planning (Today, I Wrote Nothing)
So, I had a planned out schedule. A website that’s been really useful to this series is Academia.edu, a website where scholars share some of their work, much of which is carefully gatekept, w…
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August 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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