. “In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be...
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. Sodium Haze (SH): Thank you for joining us live on the air. Covid-19 (CV): Oh darling, you're very welcome...
. As people slept on April 25th 1986, none knew that the next day would mark the beginning of the...
. "...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep...
. Oh the hushed gravitas and gnashed teeth of the BBC and Sky News last night... Here we were thinking...
. The UK government has adopted a passive but sinister Covid-19 strategy, pushing Britain towards a very dark place. To...
. Will Keir Starmer unite the Labour Party and build on Jeremy Corbyn's legacy? No. As Reuters candidly headlined yesterday:...
. The Tories are going to throw you and your loved ones under the wheels of a pandemic and see...
. When Laura Kuenssberg reported the abrupt volte-face by the UK about Covid-19 by saying 'the science has changed'... she...
. When narcissists, fantasists and twisted ideologues gain power there is always a fictional narrative. Reality intrudes eventually - but...
. "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is...
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Virus - if you think we're on the run? We are the...
. Oh what a lovely lock down! Except it isn't a lock down at all - Boris and chums are...
. . . Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has called on the Irish Government to shut down all non-essential...
. Euphemistic language exists to convey sublimated shame dishonestly. The art lies in crafting manipulative language that sounds innocuous, but...
Tory values and criminal negligence are about to unleash a medieval horror show in British hospitals - and they want...
Quietly posted in the small hours of last night in The Guardian, a devastating article detailed the threat of a...
Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar adopted Churchillian gravitas yesterday to warn about the seriousness of the Coronavirus outbreak and that...
The response of Donald Trump's venal administration to Covid-19 has mirrored and has sometimes been even worse then the delusional...
What is the theme music of the Tory response to the Corona virus? Perhaps the opening few lines of that...
I can't think of a way to describe the mendacious, selfish, callous and wilful stupidity of the Tory response to...
Yes our government is stuffed full of idiot toffs. Yes we have an ongoing medical crisis to which idiot toffs...
On International Women’s Day a former conservative home secretary was abruptly 'no platformed' by students at Oxford University - thirty...
We have built an entire global economy and monetary system on the idea that resources are infinite. This isn't too...
. The first lie about the 'Green New Deal' is that it's new. Those of a certain age and world...
To have any hope of averting or even surviving the looming apocalypse, some entrenched ideas and cultural shibboleths are going...
Euphemistic language is often an indicator of denial, avoidance and sublimated shame - it is a way to talk so...
Before we begin Why does vague euphemistic language surround the looming collapse of civilisation? On the face of it -...
Introduction On psychological defences against reality, my therapist observed simply that 'we all use em and we all need em'...
Keir Starmer - you remember him? The guy who dreamed up that brainiac maniac kamikazee fudge-ball Brexit strategy that delivered...