A Brief Guide To Content Creation I’ve recently had a growing number of people asking me for some tips and pointers on creating content. I thought I’d cobble together some of the tricks of the trade, as it were, that I’ve learned over the years. Naturally, my preferred form is the essay, either
The Incompetent Authoritarianism Of The Irish State On the curiously incompetent Irish State and the Empire's Celtic Problem Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent migrant stabbing spree in Ireland that resulted in fiery but peaceful scenes erupting on the streets of the capital, Dublin. The following day I went in search of ‘‘takes’’ that
Whatever Happened To The Midlife Crisis? Pondering over the cultural trope of the midlife crisis It was my birthday this week and I quipped to my other half that I was at the prime age for a midlife crisis and she burst out laughing. I’m not actually having a midlife crisis but if I was
An Uncanny Valley At The Cenotaph On peculiar unreality of British Political life. The somewhat modestly named “Behavioral Insights Team” carries this passage on their website in which they “face up to the challenges” of climate action: Prioritizing actions. Some behavioral barriers will be tougher to address than others. In one project, we found that encouraging
The Last Days Of The Not My Problem Bros? As the good ship Dissident Right sails ever deeper and more precariously into the uncertain maelstrom of geopolitical tumult, my mind keeps returning to the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war. As ever, when such happenings happen, factions are formed and friendships broken as everyone gets their takes in and
Welcome To The New Current Thing My initial thoughts on the new conflict in the Middle East and what will surely become the new Current Thing Well, folks, it’s official — The New Current Thing is finally here. The New Thing arrived on my social media feed in the guise of a mutilated corpse of a
Why nobody Cares About The Aliens... Aliens are real, but we live in hyper-reality The Mexican Government showed us pictures of 1000-year-old aliens and nobody cared. Nobody ran through the streets in a panic, nobody rioted, and nobody prepared for war because nobody cared. Nobody cared about the aliens because we’ve seen them before. We’
Centrist Caesars, Twitter X And The ADL On the competing visions of liberalism at the heart of Twitter X vs ADL war There’s an interesting exchange in George RR Martin’s Clash of Kings in which Varys, the scheming eunuch, and Tyrion ruminate over the ethereal nature of Power. The question fundamentally is where Power actually
The Witan Conference: A Meeting Of Fine Gentlemen My thoughts on materializing in real world at The Witan Conference I’ve been unusually quiet online this week because I was away attending the recent ‘‘The Witan’’ conference in England at the weekend. I had originally intended to merely be a face in the crowd to get a grasp
The Great White Psycho A quick take on the media feeding frenzy over Lucy Letby and Great White Defendants The British media is currently in frenzy mode over the jailing of Lucy Letby, a nurse who Sky News tells us will ‘‘Die in jail after receiving 14 whole life sentences’’. Letby has been found
The Deconstruction Of Radio 2 And Easy Listening On the purging of all things comfy from Radio 2 The Sunday drive and the country dog walk I enjoy with my good lady have recently taken a turn toward the postmodern philosophy lecture in our futile endeavor to find a comfy radio station to listen to during the drive.
Piers Morgan And The Manufacturing Of Opinion What can Jacques Ellul's ideas about vertical and horizontal propaganda tell us about online discourse? I’m currently reading Propaganda a book by Jacques Ellul who readers may be more familiar with from his well-known work The Technological Society (which I haven’t read). I will probably have more to
A Plague Of Hagues Responding to William Hague's Age of Migration article analysis and long form, free, text It’s difficult not to give yourself over entirely to despair and despondency in these times. I wasn’t planning to write about immigration. I have another, more culturally orientated article I was working on. The
Ruminations By A Vegetable Patch Contrasting the split between the organic and inorganic life unfolding before us I sit wearily down on the rickety stool I’ve appropriated for the purpose of viewing my vegetable patch. I gaze over the raised bed construction and the rows of flourishing vegetables knowing that precious little will have
Indiana Jones And The Lost Enchantment On the curious indifference being shown to the butchering of a childhood classic I realise I shouldn’t take the bait, but I decided to write something about the fact an Indiana Jones movie “dropped” and nobody cared. This is the point when people might roll their eyes or view
Too Heavy For Superman... On the increasing load diversity is placing upon mighty shoulders analysis and long form, free, text The oddball alternative rock band The Flaming Lips have a bittersweet song in their somewhat neglected canon called Waiting For Superman. The song depicts the masses once again in need of saving and once
The Faustian Left And The Sisters Of Fate Fate, Destiny and a Confused Bearded Lady This past week Fate as a concept has been on my mind quite a lot. I began considering Fate when I happened to come across a video of a female-to-male transexual who was crying because — now complete with a beard — she never knew
The Beautiful Fantasy of Unconditional Basic Income On the new realities faced by the pro UBI lobby and how it fits into the grand scheme of things Liberal progressives with a socialistic streak have long held, deep in their hearts, a wonderful dream. They surveyed the societal landscape of the modern West, America in particular, and were
Baudrillard's Kipper and the Great Reset The long and winding road from authentic kippers to the Great Reset Long-time followers may recall that I like to consider myself something of an old salty sea dog and a man of the salty brine. I have a life-long fixation and love for the sea and being an Englishmen
Dune, The Butlerian Jihad: Review and Analysis analysis and long form, free, text “Humans tried to develop intelligent machines as secondary reflex systems, turning over primary decisions to mechanical servants. Gradually, though, the creators did not leave enough to do for themselves; they began to feel alienated, dehumanized, and even manipulated. Eventually, humans became little more than